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29:(1600–1664) was an English Puritan statesman. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge with an M.A. in 1627. He was commissioner of plantations in 1648, and a commissioner for Ireland in 1652. He served as an M.P. Hertfordshire and Carnarvonshire. He was appointed Keeper of the Library at St. James's House, in 1653. He was Lord President of the
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Lawrence, born in 1600, was the eldest son of Sir John
Lawrence, (died 1604), of St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, by his marriage, on 7 March 1599, with Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of Ralph Waller of Clerkenwell, Middlesex, fourth son of Robert Waller of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. He entered
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On 21 October 1628 Lawrence married, Amy, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton, of
Iselham, Cambridgeshire. They had seven sons and six daughters. His wife's extraordinary piety proved a fertile source of cavalier satire. To their eldest son (Edward or Henry) Milton addressed in the winter of 1656 his
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Considerations tending to the Asserting and Vindicating of the Use of the Holy Scriptures and Christian Ordinances; . . . wherein . . . the Ordinance of Baptisme . . .is manifested to be of Gospell-Institution, and by Divine appointment to continue still of Use in the
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on 1 January 1646. In July 1646 he was nominated one of the commissioners for the preservation of peace between
England and Scotland, and on 17 March 1648 he became a commissioner of plantations.
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Venning, Timothy (January 2008) . "Lawrence, Henry, appointed Lord
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twentieth sonnet, "Lawrence! of virtuous father virtuous son". Their younger son John emigrated first to
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from 1654 until 1659. He also published three pamphlets between 1646 and 1649 on the doctrine of baptism.
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his successor as
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in December 1657. On the death of Cromwell in September 1658 he declared
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of 1654 Lawrence was again returned for Hertfordshire, and the
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