LAWES (William), was brother to the former, and a most capital musician. He made above 30 several sorts of music for voices and instruments; nor was there any instrument then in use, but he composed to it as aptly as if he had studied that alone. In the music school at Oxford are two large manuscript volumes of his works in score for various instruments. He was a commissary under general Gerard in the civil war, and, to the great regret of the king, was killed at the siege of Chester in 1645.