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Sir Richard Anderson's wife, Mary, was a daughter of Robert, Lord Spencer, Baron of Wormleighton, owner of the manor of Althorp in Northampton, the great friend of the Washingtons of Sulgrave and Brington, as the old account books preserved at Althrop show (see Colonel Chester's paper). This was strong corroboration of the other evidence identifying this Mr. Lawrence Washington, if corroboration is needed, and it was also a complete answer to those questions which had been raised in my mind about the influences which brough Mr. Washington to Tring. This Sir Richard Anderson seems to have been by far the most important parishioner then living in Tring, where he died 03 aug 1632, and was buried within the chancel rail of the parish church. His widow, Dame Mary Anderson, afterwards lived in Richmond, Surrey, but was buried at Tring, July 1658. The Will of Sir Richard Anderson was examined, seen below, to offer further evidence.
Sir Richard Anderson of Pendly in the county of Hartford knight, 05 Oct 1630, proved 27 Aug 1632. To the poor of Bitterly in Shropshire, Norton in Glostershire, Corringham in Essex, Albury, Tringe, and Wigginton in Hartfordshire, to each five pounds. To the town of Tringe ten pounds to be added and employed, with that money already there in stock, to set the poor on work, which money of my own and some others given to that use is in ffeoffee's hands at this time thirty pounds. To my uncle Francis Garaway or, if dead, amongst his children, twenty pounds; to my uncle Mr. John Bowyer and my two cousins, his sons John and Francis, either of them, ten pounds. To my brother in law Mr. Thomas Cowly, now consul at Sante, twenty pounds.
Item I bequeath to Mr. Robinson's two sons, one of Pembrooke College, the other of Albourne Hall, and to my cousin Larance Washington of Brasenose and to Mr. Dagnall of Pembrock College, to each of them forty shillings.
To my wife (over and above her jointure) bedding and household stuff, belonging in my father's time to a house he had in Chiswick, etc., etc.. My bigger diamond ring to my daughter Elizabeth. I will and bequeath to my dear and only surviving sister the Lady Spencer of Offley twenty pounds. To the Right Honorable, the Lord Spencer, Robert Needham Esquire, Richard Spencer Esquire, Sir Edward Spencer knight and Sir Thomas Derham knight, my worthy brothers-in-law, ten pounds each. Provision made for second son Robert and third son John, and two younger sons William and Richard (under one and twenty). Eldest daughter Elizabeth, second daughter Mary and third daughter Frances (all unmarried). To five younger daughters, Margaret, Katherine, Penelope, Ann, and Bridgett. Son Henry. My wife Dame Mary. The manor of Corringham in Essex. Cousin Henry Derham gent.
Audley, 86 (P. C. C.)
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