The miscellaneous works - 1861 Author:Walter Scott 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: LAURENCE STERNE. Laurence Sterne was one of those few authors who have anticipated the labours of the biographer, and left to the world what they desired shou... more »ld be known of their family and their life. It is but a slight sketch, however, addressed to his daughter, and stops short just where the reader becomes most interested in its progress, being very succinct in all which regards the author's personal history. " Roger Sterne," 1 (says this narrative,) " grandson to Archbishop Sterne, Lieutenant in Handaside's regiment, was married to Agnes Hehert, widow of a captain of a good family. Her family name was (I believe) Nuttle;—though, upon recollection, Mr Sterne was descended from a family of that name in Suffolk one of which settled in Nottinghamshire. The following genealogy is extracted from Thoresby's Ducatus Leodinenais, p. 215. Simon Strrpe, of Mansfield Dr Richard Sterne, = Elizabeth, daughter Archbishop of York. I of Mr Dickinson, ob. June 1683. ob. 1670. I I |8 | 3 Richard Sterne, William Sterne, Simon Sterne,=Mary, daughter of York and of Mansfield. of Elvington and heiress of Kilvington, and Haliiax, Rocrer Jtques, Esq. 1700. ob. 1703. of Elvington, near York. I 1 | 2 | 3 14 | 5 16 Richard. Roger. Jaques, Ll.o. Mary. Elizabeth. France. | I ..I). 17i!i. Richard. | LAURENCE STERNE. III. S that was the name of her father-in-law, who was a noted sutler in Flanders, in Queen Anne's wars, where my father marriedhia wife's daughter, (N. B. he was in debt to him,) which was in September 25, 1711, old style This Nuttle had a aon by my grandmother,—a fine person of a man, but a graceless whelp!— what became of him I know not. —The family (if any left) live now at Clonmel, in the south of Ireland ; at which town I was born, No...« less