Excerpt from Old Shropshire LifeLawrence Woolridge had managed to escape after Sedgemoor, and to evade the pursuit of James' agents, but some years elapsed before the captain, as he was called, ventured to quit the safety of a Dutch lodging and to return to his wife in Shropshire. After William and Mary's acces sion, however, he had returned and settled again at The Leas. From this union one child was born, a boy, who was christened Gilbert, after a remote ancestor. Lawrence did not survive long after his son's birth, as he died from a fall in the hunting held, and the care and education, therefore, of the boy devolved entirely upon his mother.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.