A little more on Sir William Garraway / Garway of London (d.

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A little more on Sir William Garraway / Garway of London (d.

Legg inn av John Brandon » 04 des 2004 18:50:38

One of Doug's excellent new lines in RPA is that of Mr. James-1 Taylor
of Lynn, Massachusetts, who was a descendant (via Zouche, Holand,
Swinnerton, Peshale, Wolryche, Hopton, Anderson, Garraway, and Foxall)
of the Lungespees.

P. 707-08 of Doug's book gives a short sketch of Sir William Garraway:

"16. ELIZABETH ANDERSON, married by license dated 7 Jan. 1571/2
WILLIAM GARRAWAY, Knt., Citizen and Draper of London, son of John
Garraway, Citizen and Mercer of London, by Ursula, daughter of John
Bridges, Knt. He was born about 1537 (aged 88 at death). They had
eleven sons, Francis, Robert, Henry, William, Thomas, Bartholomew,
Nathaniel, Nathaniel (again), Michael, Arthur, and Jonas, and six
daughters, Katherine, Joan (or Jane) (wife of William Elkington),
Elizabeth, Elizabeth (again), Fortune (wife of Edward Blount and John
Wright), and Alice. SIR WILLIAM GARRAWAY died testate (P.C.C. 5 Hele)
26 Sept. 1625, and was buried at St. Peter le Poer, London. His
widow, Elizabeth, died testate (P.C.C. 118 Pile) and was buried at St.
Peter le Poer, London 12 Dec. 1636."

While looking through some old books recently, I noticed a rather
charming narrative of some of the Garraways (who later married into
the Norrises of Speke). Thomas Heywood, ed., _The Norris Papers_
(Chetham Society, 1846 [i.e., vol. 9]), pp. vi:

"The Garways, or Garroways, originally came from the Leys, near
Weobley. There was lately a brass in the church of that place, half
worn away, to Watkin Garway, and Agnes, his wife: their son, John,
sold the estate, and settling in London, married the daughter of Sir
John Brydges, Lord Mayor, 1621.---Dallaway's _Sussex_, vol. ii. p. 50.
This John had two sons, the second, William, born 1538, was the
founder of the wealth of the Garways, and lived to be 88, dying 1625.
This man long held the lucrative office of chief of the customs, and
his epitaph was to be read in the church of St. Peter le Poor, to
which he added an aisle, the very year in which another government
contractor charged him with systematic fraud. [King] James heard the
mutual reviling of Swinnerton and Garway in bed, and decided in favor
of the latter.---Egerton Papers, Camden Society, 459. It was a
species of Peachem and Locket controversy, and the circumstances under
which old Garway was knighted, (Nicholl's _James I._ vol. ii. 514,) as
well as his evidence on the trial of Middlesex, very much confirm
Swinnerton's charge, of whom doubtless the same story might have been
told. Garway had seventeen children, was often in Parliament, but
refused the Mayoralty. (Qui purpuram recusavit, nunc triumphat in
albis.) The landed property he accumulated in Berkshire, Sussex, and
Hertfordshire, was very considerable."

Presumably Garway's parliamentary service fell in the period (1603-25)
not yet covered by _The History of Parliament_.


*We should perhaps keep in mind in our discussions of RPA the amount
of totally new material Doug has provided (for instance, Taylor
[above], Alsop, Baynard, and the new Grey line behind Simon Lynde).

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