_Lady Bingham_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--Lady Bingham, whose daughter,
afterwards Lady Crewe, was unsuccessfully courted by Sir Symonds D'Ewes
(for which see his autobiography), was Sarah, the daughter of John Heigham,
Esq., of Gifford's Hall in Urekham Brook, Suffolk, of the same family with
Sir Clement Heigham, Knt., of Barrow, Suffolk, Speaker of the House of
Commons. She was married by banns at St. Olave's, Hart Street, Jan. 11,
1588, to Sir Richard Bingham, Knt., of co. Dorset. She married, secondly,
Edward Waldegrave, Esq., of Lawford, Essex, to whom she was second wife,
and by him had Jemima, afterwards Lady Crewe. Edward Waldegrave, married to
his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew Averell, of
Southminster, Essex, had by her an only daughter, Anne, who married Drew,
afterwards Sir Drew Drury, Bart., of Riddlesworth, Norfolk. He, Edward
Waldegrave, was descended from a younger branch of the family of
Waldegrave, of Smallbridge, in the parish of Bures, Suffolk, from whence
descends the present Earl Waldegrave.
Lady Bingham lies buried in the chancel of Lawford church, where a stone in
the floor states her age to have been sixty-nine, and that she was buried
Sept. 9. 1634. There is also another stone in the floor for Edward
Waldegrave, Esq., who married Dame Sarah Bingham, by whom he had one
daughter, Jemima, who was married to John Stearne (a mistake evidently for
Stene, the seat of James Lord Crewe). Edward Waldegrave was buried Feb. 13,
1621, aged about sixty-eight.
The large monument in Lawford church is for the father of this Edward
Waldegrave, who died in 1584.