Born about 1557 in Al Hallows, Barking, London, Middlesex, England.

Judith Andrewes, buried at All Hallows, Barking, April 1559 (PR)



Memoirs of the life and works of ... Lancelot Andrewes By Arthur Tozer Russell

The Family Of Andrewes.

The name of our prelate [Lancelot Andrews] was variously spelt, Andrew, Andrews, Andrewes, and Andros. The "e" in Andrewes was sometimes omitted in the early part of the seventeenth century. Sir Robert Andrewes of Normandy, knt., came over with "William I., and married the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Winwick of Winwick, Northamptonshire, and afterward of Denton in the same county.1

In 1303 occurs John Andrew, Alderman of Redingate, Canterbury. A Sir William Andrewes of Northamptonshire and Carlisle occurs in 1234.

Thomas Andrews of Beggar's Weston, or Weston Bigard (or Begard), a few miles east of Hereford, was born in 1501, and died in 1615. See the genealogy of this branch in Nichol's Leicestershire, parish of Syston. From him was descended the late highly respected Gerard Andrewes, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of St. James', Westminster, and 8th November, 1809, Dean of Canterbury. He died, aged 75, on June 2nd, 1825.

In a window in St. Bartholomew the Less, London, over the door in the passage into the church, are the arms and crest (painted in glass) of Henry Andrewes, Alderman of London, 1636: argent, a saltirc asure on a chief gules; 3 mullets or: crest, a Moor's head in profile.

In 1649 and 1651 Thomas, a leatherseller, son of Robert Andrewes of Feltham near Hounslow, Middlesex, and of the Fishmongers' Company, was Lord-Mayor of London.

Jonathan Andrewes was a member of the court of Merchant Taylors 1665, and Richard Andrewes, M.D., 1627—1634.

Sir Matthew Andrewes, knt., was one of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House, 1625.

Our prelate in his will makes mention of William the son of his deceased brother Nicholas; Thomas, Nicholas, and Roger the sons of his deceased brother Thomas, and their eldest sister Ann, married to Arthur Woollaston; also her younger sister Mary. His brother Nicholas was born in 1567, and died in 1626. His brother Thomas was named after his father, who appears as a benefactor to All Hallows', Barking, 1593, towards repairs of the church, £2; to the poor £5; probably bequeathed. Our prelate's mother, Mrs. Joan Andrewes, left in 1524 a bequest of £10. He also makes mention of his sister Mary Burrell. One Alexander Burrell, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, 1706, MA. 1710, was Vicar of Buckden, July 5, 1717, which he resigned in 1721, being made in 1720 Bector of Adstock near Winslow, Bucks., by Dr. Gibson, then Bishop of Lincoln, and also Bector of Puttenham, Herts, by the same patron. His father was also of Trinity College, BA. 1666, M.A. 1670. There have been about twenty members of the University of Cambridge of that name. The name is also spelt Burwell; Mr. Samuel Burwell was at our prelate's funeral. Of this name was Thomas, LL.D. of the University of Cambridge, 1661; Thomas, M.B. of the same University per Literas Regias, 1662; Francis, A.M. of the same University per Litera Regiai, 1675; Thomas, M.B., King's College, 1677; and Charles, M.B., Pembroke College, 1717. The name Burwell appears to have merged into Burrell. The children of the Bishop's sister, Mary Burrel, were Andrew, John, Samuel, Joseph, James, Lancelot, Mary Booke, and her daughter Martha. His sister Martha, born in 1577, married first to Bobert Princep, by whom she had a son Thomas. Charles Bobert Princep (probably a descendant) was B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1811, M.A. 1813. At Oxford was John Princep, B.A., Balliol College, Oct. 12, 1738. Martha was married secondly to Mr., probably Peter, Salmon, by whom she had two sons, Peter and Thomas. The Eev. Thomas Peter Dod Salmon was B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1782, M.A. 1786, Fellow of that College, B.D. 1793, and was living in 1811. Mr. Salmon had a sister Martha and a daughter Anne Best. The Bishop also makes mention of his cousin Anne Hockett. John Hockett was BA. of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1662, M.A. 1666, and a Fellow of that society. Another of the same name was B.A. of that College 1696. He names another cousin, Sandbrooke; also his cousin Robert and his two children; his cousin Rebecca; his father's half-sister Joan; her first husband's name was Bousie. AJso his godson Lancelot Lake, son of Sir Thomas Lake. There was a Lancelot Lake, BA. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1666, M.A. 1670. Also his two godsons Robert and Charles Barker, son of Mr. Robert Barker, "latelie the King's printer." His principal executor was Mr. John Parker, citizen and Merchant Taylor, of London, to be assisted by Sir Thomas Lake, Sir Henry Martin, and Dr. Nicholas Styward or Steward. His will was witnessed by Robert Bostock, Prebendary of Norton Episcopi in the church of Lincoln, and afterward Archdeacon of Suffolk, and (if not in 1626) Prebendary of Chichester; Joseph Fenton, probably our prelate's physician; John Browning, Bector of Buttermere near Hungerford, whom he had preferred to that living in 1624, author of Six Sermons concerning Public Prayer and the Fasts of the Church (Lond. 1636); Thomas Eddie and William Green, two of the Bishop's servants. Archdeacon Wigmore also signed the three several codicils to the will.

The family of Andrew or Andrewes has seated itself in Gloucestershire; Plymouth, Devon; Bisbrook, Rutlandshire; Norfolk, Suffolk, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire, Wilts, Bucks, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Surrey, and Hants. In Cambridgeshire it is still represented by the Eev. Thomas Andrew of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Vicar of Triplow; and by another descendant, a respectable yeoman at Litlington in the same county. In Hertfordshire, by the father of this latter, a yeoman in the parish of Buckland near Barkway. In Suffolk, by George W. Andrewes, Esq., Sudbury, Suffolk. In Surrey, by the Rev. William Gerard Andrewes, M.A., Magdalen Hall, Oxford, curate of Mordcn near Mitcham, and grandson of the late Dean of Canterbury. The Rev. Thomas Andrew of Triplow is descended of a Northamptonshire branch of this family. From Northamptonshire a branch of this family migrated about the beginning of the seventeenth century to the neighbourhood of Canterbury. Thence Henry Andrews removed to London, and was cut off with his whole household, except one infant, in the Great Plague in 1665. This infant lived to a considerable age, and having acquired some fortune by merchandise, thought it right to take out arms afresh in 1729. He died in 1730. His grandson Joseph was at a very early age appointed Paymaster to the Forces serving in Scotland 1715. His son Joseph was created a Baronet in 1766. His brother, James Pettit Andrews, born at Shaw House near Newbury, 1737, was the author of a miscellaneous collection entitled Anecdotes, Ancient and Modern, Src. Lond. 8vo. 1789. A supplement to this volume in 1790; History of Great Britain, 1794, vol. I., from Caesar's invasion to the death of Richard I. 4to. Lond. In 1795 appeared a second part, to the accession of Edward VI. The plan of this work was founded on that of Dr. Henry. He appears to have discontinued it for the purpose of completing Dr. Henry's history, which, in 1796, he brought down to the accession of James I. He translated The Sarages of Europe; a popular French novel now forgotten. In 1798 he published The Inquisitor, a Tragedy in five Acts altered from the German, in conjunction with his friend H. J. Pye, the Poet Laureate. He was a contributor to the Archtrologia and the Gentleman's Magazine. On the establishment of the London Police Magistracy in 1792, he was appointed Magistrate for Queen's Square and St. Margaret's Westminster. He died in London August 6th, 1797. He had married Anne daughter of the Rev. Runiney Penrose, Rector of Newbury. He survived her twenty years. The present excellent Master of the Grammar School, Stamford, the Rev. Frederic E. Gretton, B.D., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and author of some viduable Parochial Sermons,* is descended from Bishop Andrewes both on the mother's and father's side. His father married a Clay, and his grandfather a Pigott, the granddaughter and daughter respectively of Catharine and Ellen Andrewes, whose father died and was buried at Southwell in or about 1717. Mr. G. W. Andrews of Sudbury is a younger brother of the Rev. Robert Andrews, B.D., who was ninth Senior Optime, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and B.A. 1821, of Middleton near Sudbury. The eldest brother is Lieut.Colonel Andrews, residing at 57, Ecolestone Square, London; and the youngest, the Rev. William Nesfield Andrews, of Jesus College, Cambridge, M.A. 1832, Rector of Chilton near Sudbury 1853.

1. Tendon, Edwards and Hughe*, Ave Maria Lane 1843. Author also of SlmiUumt, 1839, 4c, &o.

A.D. 1600. Five days after the death of Hooker, Andrewes wrote to Dr. Parry, afterward Bishop of Worcester:

"Salutem In Cheisto."

"I cannot choose but write though you do not; I never failed since I last saw you, but daily prayed for him till the very instant you sent me this heavy news. I have hitherto prayed Serva nobis hunc; now must I Da nobis allum. Alas, for our great loss ! and when I say ours, though I mean yours and mine, yet much more the common: with [which ?] the less sense they have of so great a damage, the more sad we need to bewail them ourselves, who knew his works and his worth to be such as behind him he hath not, that I know, left any near him. And whether I shall live to know any near him, I am in great doubt that I care not how many and myself had redeemed his longer life, to have done good in a better subject than he had in hand, though that were very good. Good brother, have a care to deal with his executrix or executor, or (him that is like to have a great stake in it) his father-in-law, that there be special care and regard for preserving such papers as he left, besides the three last books excepted. By preserving, I mean, that not only they be not embezzled and come to nothing, but that they come not into great hands who will only have use of them quatenus et quous que, and suppress the rest, or unhappily all; but rather into the hands of some of them that unfeignedly wished him well, though of the meaner sort, who may upon good assurance (very good assurance) be trusted with them; for it is pity they should admit any limitation. Do this and do it mature; it had been more than time long since to have been about it, if I had sooner known it. If any word or letter would do any good to Mr. Churchman, it should not want. But what cannot yourself or Mr. Sandys do therein? For Mr. Cranmer is away; happy in that he shall gain a week or two before he know of it. Almighty God comfort us over him, whose taking away, I trust I shall no longer live than with grief remember; therefore with. grief because with inward and most just honour I ever honoured, him since I knew him.

"Your assured poor loving friend," L. Andrewes. "At the Court, Nov. 7, 1600."

About a month after this letter was written the Archbishop sent Andrewes to Mrs. Hooker to enquire after the MSS. He did not however succeed in obtaining any information. Upon this the Archbishop sent for her to London, when she confessed that Mr. Chork, a Puritan, and another minister of the same bias, had destroyed some of his papers as being in their opinion not such as should see the light. However the rough drafts of the three last books of the Eccl. Polity were discovered and delivered by Whitgift to Dr. Spenser, who drew up as perfect a copy as he could, a transcript of which was given to Andrewes amongst others.—Strype's Whitgift, ii. 441.

Page 216. The Apocalypse.

Dr. Christopher "Wordsworth has in his work entitled The Apocalypse, (Lond. Rivingtons, 1849,) given in Appendix I., the doctrine of Andrewes upon Antichrist, pp. 166—203, Ex secundo capita ad Thessal. probabiliter colligi Romanum Pontifieem esse Antichristum.—De Sede et Durations Antichristi—De Enoch et Elid.—De quatuor Visionibus S. Johannis in Apocalypsi, in quibus Antichristus designatur.

Page 248. Hkinsits.

Daniel Hcinsius (Heyn), Professor of Politics and History at Leydcn, was born at Ghent in May 1580, and was a pupil of Joseph Scaliger. He was appointed Greek Professor when but 18 years old. Urban VIII. made him great offers if he would come to Borne. He was an indefatigable critical editor. He died February 25, 1655.

Page 377.

Of Dr. Sibbes see Materials for a Life of Dr. Richard Sibbes, communicated by the Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, M.A. (Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge). Read December 1, 1856, Communication* made to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, JVb. VII. Cambridge, 1857, pp. 253—264. Dr. Sibbes was an ornament of St. John's College, of which he was successively a Scholar and Fellow. To his fellowship he was admitted on April 3, 1601, M.A. 1602, taxor 1608, preacher of Gray's Inn about 1618, Master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, 1626, died July 5, 1635.

For an invaluable collection of his works the University Library at Cambridge is indebted to the discriminating zeal of the Rev. J. E. B. Mayor.

Page 378. Martin.

The Bcv. John Martin was, on the day after his admission to priest's orders, presented to Loddon in Norfolk. Baker's MSS. Page 384. Mede, More, and Ccdwobth.

The tablet to the memory of these eminent persons erected by the late Bishop of Lincoln, the then Master, and Fellows of Christ College, at the suggestion of that lam_ prelate's early and devoted friend the Venerable Archdeacon

Page 396. Thomas Macabxess.

Thomas Macarness was admitted to the Vicarage of Barton in Cambridge in the spring of 1617.

Page 472. Junius.

Francis Junius, the son of the joint translator of the Old Testament with Tremelliue, was born at Heidelberg in 1589. He was the nephew of Isaac Vossius, Canon of Windsor, and from 16 resided mostly in England, partly in the family of Thomas Earl Arundel, partly at Oxford, for the sake of the Bodleian and other libraries. There he took lodgings opposite Lincoln College, that he might be near his learned pupil Dr. Marshall, the Rector of the College, who, like himself, was a zealous student in the northei languages. Thence he removed to St. Ebb's parish. In 1665 he published his Gloasarium Oothicum in quatuor Evangelia Oothict Dordrac, 1555, 4to., with notes by Dr. Marshall. He died in 167_.