Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Major General

First Name:

Lawrence

Last Name:

Crawford

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

No

Installation Date:

post 1645

Inscription:

From: M
Willis, Browne 1727 Survey of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol, p.701
In the Lady Chapel, was against the North Wall, a Monument of Major General Lawrence Crawford, kill’d at the Siege of Hereford on the Parliament Side: He being Commander of the Scotch Army, buried here Sept. 5. 1645. which justifying the Rebel Cause, was defaced, and entirely taken down after the Restauration. The Inscription on it being printed in Le Neve, I shall not repeat it here.

Inscription from Le Neve, John 1717-19 Monumenta Anglicana: being inscriptions on the monuments of several eminent persons deceased in or since the year ... 1700 [or rather 1600 to the end of the year 1718], vol.1, p.220
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cdgxe4fc/items?canvas=232&manifest=4&query=hereford


LAURENTIJ CRAFFORDIJ Gen. Mag. Scoto-Brit.
Quod mortale suit immortalitatem redivivam hic ex-
pectat. Filius suit HUGONIS CRAFFORDIJ Jordanbilli.
(ex nobili familia KILBERNIA) nascendi ordine sex-
tus,a prima pubertate casam Palatinatam amplexus
annos XI. GUSTAVO & XTINAE Suecorum Regibus
in Germania militavit CAROLI LUDOOVICI Elect. Palat.
auspicijs, turmis aliquot equitum protribunus triennio
imperavit. Anno 1641. Adversus Rebelles Hybernenses
missus biennio Tribunus res magnas gessit pari fortitu-
dine & fide commendatus. Anno 1643. A Parliamenti
Anglici ordinibus evocatus primum in Comitis Man-
cestriae deinde in Scotorum exercitu legatus 2dus seu
Gene

Generalis Major, biennio fere rebus maximis cum
summa fide et virtute gestis gloriam meritus immor-
talem.

17 Aug. 1645. Dum Herefordiam
acrius oppugnat plumbea trajectus occubuit
Bonis nimirum desideratus. Aetat. Ann. 34.
Natus est in arce paterna Jordanhilla prope Glascuum
In Scotia Nov. Cal. 1611.

Quos tibi maturos mors invidisset honores
Cui titulus tantos prima juventa dedit:
Pelides sic ante diem sic occidit Hector
Quamlibet ignavi saecula lenta trahant.

To vindicate Rights human & Divine
The Crown of Sweden & Palsgrave of the Rhine
And both the British Senates having serv’d
Wth Honour gain’d & faithfulness preserv’d
The publick interest pleading with his Sword
He dyed before the Wall of Hereford


On a Gravestone on the Floor.
Here lyeth interred the Hon. Maj. Gen. LAU.CRAW-
FORD first Major General to the E. of March next
Maj. General to the Scotts Army, who dec. 16. Aug.
at Hereford & is now here interred this 5. Of Sept.
1645.
MS. Bowles

Allegiance:

Parliamentarian

Condition:

Average

Memorial Notes:

See: ODNB Crawford, Lawrence https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/6641