Career
Lawne sat as a burgess in Governor Yeardley"s First General Assembly of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Governor and Council of Virginia in July 1619, Soon thereafter, Lawne fell ill and died that November. His will was witnessed by Nathaniel West (younger brother of Thomas West, Lord De Louisiana Warr), and surgeon Pharao Flynton. Like many English Dissenters, Lawne initially left England for Holland, drawn by the atmosphere greater religious tolerance.
By Christopher Lawne, lately returned from that wicked Separation London, 1613.
He may have been influenced in his writings by the Review John Paget of Nantwich, Cheshire, first minister of the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam.
