LORT

This family is still being researched [as indeed they all are!], so not al information is present.

A primary reason to include is that famously Elizabeth LORT spent years in jail at Welshpool because of the Quaker beliefs of herself and husband Charles II Lloyd of Dolobran. There is material about all this at the Quaker Archive and Library. We visited Dolobran and it looks the same from the early picture, but when we visited was just a farmhouse with an elderly couple living there.

Sampson LORT presumably is the first named Sampson in the family, and of course there are several Sampson Lloyds thereafter. Interestingly, he was totally devoted to Olive Phillips, writing in very emotional terms when she died- again this is in the Archive. He ancestry goes back to Sir John PERROT who died in thre Tower of London- maybe poisoned, or maybe even old age as he was 64 at the time in the 1500s- quite an age!

PERROT had upset the clergy in Ireland so was summonsed back to England and was imprisoned in the Tower. How he died isnt clear.

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Note below is a transcription of what Sampson Lort wrote when his wife Olive died so young.

Samson Lort    ]

Olive Phillipps ]           where married the 22th of October 1632

Elizabeth Lort there Eldest daughter was born the 2nd day of January 1633

Richard Lort Eldest Sonn to them born the 10th day of March 1634 he died the 11th of Sept 1636

Mary Lort there 2nd daughter born the 15th of Sept 1636. She died the 21st March 1637

Olive Phillips above sayd my dear wife had a most religious life and on the 17th day of October about 3 of the clock in the afternoon finished her course in this world. Anno Dom 1637, She had her memory to the last and died in the true faith and reigns with Christ her redeemer Heaven where my Soul desireth to be also Sampson Lort

My said wife was buried on the 22nd day of October 1637 in Stackpool court Eyle in Stackpool Church where I desire to be buried also even by her side when it shal please my god to set an end to those my days of Sin.

Memorandum that on the same day of the month and in the same church that my said dear wife was married to me she was buried she having been my wife five year counting five days her dyeing request to me was that I should be careful to bring up our two daughters in the fear of God and then said she God will be a mother to them and will provide for them as he did for my self and others of my mother children who died in Childbearth and left many small Children to her God to provide for

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She was a pattern for women and such a wife unto me as the world cannot bring forth her follow no one ill quality in her that ever I could precove being her husband 5 years She was given much to Godliness which was accompanied with all there vertues in her for that I could often say to my self in her life time there was nothing wanting in her and that god had most richly blessed me in her- her body was well proportioned straight and strong and comly her carriage and behaviour discreet desent lovly and modest her heart manfull and obedient her wit sharp and standing quick judgement sound memory good and a well spoken woman and yet much abounded with patience and all other vertues fitt for women she was discended of good parentage [viz] her father being Sir John Phillipps of Picton Baronet and her Mother being first or seccond daughter to Sir John Perrot some time Lord Deputy of Ireland and priviecouncellor in England in Queen Elizabeth time my Dear wifes last saying was I have run the race that was set before me and now my course is finished come Lord Jesus come quickly lord into thy hands I commend my Spirit now tis finished and so departed like a lamb.

                                                  Sampson Lort

[addendum in same handwriting]

on the 7th day of Aprill 1685 My dear mother departed this life about a quarter of an hour before sun rising and was buried on the tenth of the same month.

 Elizabeth Lloyd