HER ARRIVAL AT BROUGH-HALL.                   ] 1

f snow white steed he brought for her, caparisoned with
crimson velvett, embrodered with swans and martins of
perle ;» tK^se the arms of Lawson, those of Brough, whose
daughter and heire sir Ralph marry'd. After the per¬
formance of those sweet mutual addresses he applyed
himself to her father, of wh'ome yet he had not so much as
taken notice, and the rest of the honourable train with the
highest rhetorick of civill respects, that the sharpness of
his witt, improved by the best breeding in England,
could advance. Between the two knights, her own
father on the right hand, her father-in-law on the left,
shee ridd more like an Esther or princess, than a subject
or esquire's spouse, till arriving at a fair green betbre
Brough-hall, shee mett with a second encounter or volley
of ceremonies given by her mother-in-law, the lady
Lawson, who greeted her with the salutation of the wel-
comest guest that ever her house received, and to make
outward demonstration of what inwardly shee resented,
herself and her three daughters, the lady Rookby, Mrs.
Ingleby, and Miss Ja : Lawson,^ were decked up in white
sat tine ; the other ladies, great in number and quahty, in
such attire as each had purposely prepaired for so pul3lick
a meeting.    In the confluence of these allurements, at-
 

' The arms of Lawson, argent, a chevron hetiveen three martlets sable.
The swans were quartered by the Burghs, but were more properly the
arms of the Elkintons. The arms of the Burghs were argent, on a
fess sable three bezants.—H. L.

J By an error of the transcriber of two copies of the MS., the
word Miss Ja : Lawson, is transformed into Mrs. James Lawson.
Sir Kalph Lawson, in his will dated Sept. 4. 1623, gives ** to his
daughter Jane £200, and the chest in his bed parlour that was her
mothers, and such a bed of clothes as her mother desired she should
have." Sir Kalph Lawson was married in 1568, and James Lawson
was his fifth son, and probably not his fifth born child, consequently
he would be almost too young to have been a married man in 1598 ;
besides the MS. speaks of lady Lawson and her three daughters;
now knowing as we do, that she had a daughter Jane, we may safely
propose the present emendation.— W. L.
 

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