THE WORKS OF LAURENCE STERNE, IN ONE VOLUME: WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY DARLEY, PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & CO. 1855. OF THE LIFE AND FAMILY OF THE LATE REVEREND MR. LAURENCE STERNE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. ROGER STERNE* (grandson to Arch- was ominous to my poor father, who was, bishop Sterne) Lieutenant in Handaside's the day of our arrival, with many other regiment, was married to Agnes Hebert, brave officers, broke, and sent adrift into widow of a Captain of good family. Her the wide world, with a wife and two chilfamily name was (I believe) Nuttle, though dren;-the elder of which was Mary. She upon recollection, that was the name of her was born at Lisle, in French Flanders, July father-in-law, who was a noted sutler in 10, 1712, new style. This child was the Flanders, in Queen Anne's wars, where my most unfortunate :-She married one Wer. father married his wife's daughter, (N. B. mans, in Dublin,-who used her most un he was in debt to him), which was on Sep- mercifully ;-spent his substance, became a tember 25, 1711, old style. This Nuttle bankrupt, and left my poor sister to shift had a son by my grandmother,—a fine per- for herself; which she was able to do but son of a man, but a graceless whelp!-what for a few months, for she went to a friend's became of him I know not.-The family (if house in the country, and died of a broken any left) live now at Clonmel, in the south heart. She was a most beautiful woman,— of Ireland; at which town I was born, No- of a fine figure, and deserved a better fate. vember 24, 1713, a few days after my mother arrived from Dunkirk.-My birth-day * 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 Leodinensis, p. 215. SIMON STERNE, of Mansfield. Dr. Richard Sterne, Elizabeth, daughter Archbishop of York, I of Mr. Dickinson, ub. June 1683. -The regiment in which my father served being broke, he left Ireland as soon as I was able to be carried with the rest of his family, and came to the family seat at Elvington, near York, where his mother lived. She was daughter to Sir Roger Jaques, and an heiress. There we sojourned for about ten months, when the regiment was established, and our household decamped with bag and baggage for Dublin.-Within a month of our arrival, my father left us, being ordered to Exeter; where, in a sad winter, my mother and her two children followed him, travelling from Liverpool, by land, to Mary. Elizabeth. Frances. Plymouth.-(Melancholy description of this journey, not necessary to be transmitted here.) In twelve months we were all sent back to Dublin.-My mother, with three of us (for she lay-in at Plymouth of a boy, Joram) took ship at Bristol, for Ireland, and ob. 1670. 12 | 3 Richard Sterne, William S'erne, Simon Sterne. Mary daughter & of York and of Mansfield. of Elvington | heiress of Roger and Halifax. Jaques. of Elving ob. 1703. ton, near York. 14 LAURENCE STERNE. The arms of the family, says Guillam, in his book of Heraldry, p. 77. are, Or, a chevron between three crosses dory, sable. The crest, on a wreath of his colors, a starling proper. Trifling circumstances are worthy of notice, when had a narrow escape from being cast away. connected with distinguished characters. The arms by a leak springing up in the vessel.-At of Mr. Sterne's family are no otherwise important length after many perils and struggles we than on account of the crest having afforded a hint for one of the finest stories in "The Sentimental got to Dublin. There my father took a large house, furnished it, and in a year and a-half” Journey." |