Palmes, William, Life of Mrs. Dorothy Lawson of St. Anthony's near Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Northumberland

(Newcastle-upon-Tyne :  Imprinted by George Bouchier Richardson, at the sign of the River-god Tyne, Clayton-treet-west; printer to the Society of antiquaries, and to the Typographical society, both of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  1851.)

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CHAPTER II.
 

HER VERTUOUS COMPORTMENT FROM THE TIME OF HER MARRlAGET^
WHILEST SHEE LIVD AT BROUGH.
 

FTER the celebration of her marriage, she
was conducted from Winge to Burton, in
externall pomp and shew like a glorious
bride, but if we may credite an humble
soul in her praise (which with me counter-
poyses amalefactours accusation of himself in his own
cause) asweary of such strait as ever shee was of
learning her A B C, or needle-work, when a child.
Shee rested at Burton untill all Holderness came to
congratulate, some as friends and allies, others as ser-
vantsand vassals, but all promiscuously pretending tithe
to a proportion in the solemnity. From Burton she
departed towards Brough with a far larger retinue than
before: but it most encreased at Leeman, a village
six miles from the end of her journey, where shee
was forced to make a halt by Sir. R. Lawson, who
at his first approach (which was glorious to envy)
with one hundred horse of his attendance, saluted
her with the ordinary salute of the kingdom, but
iBfter an extraordinary manner, not permitting her to
alight : then he took her from horse himself, im¬
parted his benediction, which she humbly craved on
her knees in the dust, and mounted her again on a  \
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