MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND FAMILY OF THE LATE REV. MR. LAURENCE STERNE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. ROGER STERNE, (grandson to Archbishop Sterne,) lieutenant in Handaside's regiment, was married to Agnes Hebert, widow of a captain of a good family: her family name was (I believe) Nuttlethough, upon recollection, that was the name of her father-in-law, who was a noted sutler in Flanders, in Queen Ann's wars, where my father married his wife's daughter, (N. B. he was in debt to him,) which was in September 25, 1711, Old Style. This Nuttle had a son 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 November 24, 1713, a few days after my mother arrived from Dunkirk. My birth-day was ominous to my poor father, who was, the day after our arrival, with many other brave officers, broke, and sent adrift into the wide world with a wife and two children-the elder of which was Mary; she was born at Lisle, in French Flanders, July the tenth, one thousand seven hundred and twelve, Old Style. This child was most unfortunateshe married one Weemans, in Dublinwho used her most unmercifully-spent his substance, became a bankrupt, and left my poor sister to shift for herself,-which she was able to do but for a few months, for she went to a friend's house in the country, and died of a broken heart. She was a most beautiful woman—of a fine figure, and deserved a better fate.—The regi ment in which my father served being broke, he 'eft 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 George Jaques, and an |