Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: But this, as well as the Cheshire property, appears to have parsed, early in the eighteenth century, into the family of Isherwood, of Bolton- le-Moors, in Lancashire, by a marriage with the niece of the regicide, the heiress of the Bradshaw family. MEMOIR OF THOMAS HARRISON. Thomas Harrison, whose courageous defence of his conduct on his trial, and undaunted endurance of his last sufferings, were not less remarkable than the fanatical extravagances of his life, was the son of a grazier, near Newcastle under Line, according to some writers; of a butcher, near Nantwich, in Cheshire, according to Clarendon. The former is the more probable account. In the Register of Newcastle under Lyne is an entry of Thomas Harrisc n, baptized July 16. 1606. And tradition points out an old house in the Lower Street of that town as having belonged to the regicide. It is certain that he came to London young, and was placed under an attorney in Clifford's Inn, of the name of Hoselker; which kind of education, says Clarendon, introduces men into the language and practice of business; and if it be not resisted by the great ingenuity (ingenuousness) of the person, inclines young men to more pride than any other kind of breeding, and disposes them to be pragmatical and insolent, though they havethe skill to conceal it from their masters, except they find them (as they are too often) inclined to cherish it. When the students of the Inns of Court, infected with the insubordinate spirit of the times, formed themselves into companies at the commencement of the civil war, Harrison was among the number; and served under Sir Philip Stapylton in the body guard of the General the Earl of Essex. Clarendon says he first obtained the office of a Cornet; and got up, by diligence and sobriety, to the s...