VAUGHANS
Back to Historical Individuals
VAUGHAN
Family of South Wales.
VAUGHAN
family of Bredwardine, Herefordshire............. 3
Vaughans
of Clyro, Radnershire................. 4
X
ref also Vaughan Family of Courtfield, Herefordshire..... 5
Vaughans
of Dyffryn Achddu..... 6
Vaughans
of Gelli Gatti.............. 6
Vaughans
of Llether Cadfan....... 6
VAUGHAN
family of Hergest, Kington, Herefordshire. 7
VAUGHAN
family of Llwydiarth, Montgomeryshire........ 8
VAUGHAN,
EDWARD (d. 1661), Master of the Bench of the
VAUGHAN
family of Trawsgoed (Crosswood;), Cardiganshire... 9
VAUGHAN
family Pant Glas....... 10
Vaughan
Family of Corsygedol............... 11
Vaughan
family of Courtfield, Herefordshire........... 12
Epitaph
of Lady Vaughan in St Peter’s Church
The
Cadet Families of the
Thomas
Vaughan of Plas Gwyn LLandyfaelog.... 18
LLETHER
CADFAN, Llangathen......... 18
Cromwell
at Golden Grove? 19
Hirlas
Horn at Golden Grove.. 19
Derwydd 19
Trecoed
and Cambriol 21
New
Camhriol............ 21
Tretower............ ...23
TRETWR............. 24
Sir
Thomas Vaughan of Monmouth /Tretower............ 24
Henry
and Thomas Vaughan of Tretowers................. 26
HENRY
VAUGHAN, SILURIST............................ 26
Vaughans
of Gelli-gaer descended from Lewis....... 27
Vaughans
of Cathedine descended from Roger...... 27
Vaughans
of Merthyr Tydfil descended from William.... 27
Vaughans
of Coedkernew descended from John...............27
Vaughans
of TRIMSARAN (PLAS), Pembrey............... 27
Penybanc
Issa – Abergwili...... 28
Vaughans
of Llanelli.............. 29
Vaughan
of Narberth.............. 29
Vaughan
of Jordanston........... 29
Vaughans
of Tre-cwn............ 29
Vaughans
of Gelli-goch.......... 29
Vaughans
of Nant-Gwyn....... 30
Vaughan
- minister of Rubuxton............ 31
Richard
Vaughan Bishop of Bangor/Chester/London.. 31
Vaughan
– Sheriff of Haverfordwest... 31
Vaughans
and the Quakers.......... 32
Vaughans
of Conway.................. 32
Sir
GRUFFUDD VAUGHAN, (d. 1447), soldier, of Broniarth and Trelydan, parish of
Guilsfield, Mont............ 32
John
Vaughan of Cuckoo, Haverfordwest........ 33
The
Vaughans of South Pembrokeshire.............. 33
Bishop
Vaughan and Lamphey Palace................. 35
The
Vaghan’s of South Pembrokeshire 1330’s..... 36
Walter de Seys........................ 39
Pembroke............... 42
EXPENSES......... 42
Vaughans
of St Issels (now Saunderfoot) Pembrokeshire... 43
Vaughans
– Marches................. 43
THE
GREAT SESSIONS......... 43
RECOGNISANCES
FOR KEEPING THE PEACE TAKEN IN THE GREAT SESSIONS AT NEWPORT IN
1476................ 43
VAUGHAN family of Bredwardine, Herefordshire.
Just of the B4352 road between
Herefored and Hay on Wye.
It is situated in one on the most
beautiful spots in the country, on the banks of the Wye river sheltered by the
wooded hills.
A beautiful mellow brick bridge crosses
the river and the village has an early red brick inn called the Red Lion. The
Norman Church is curiously shaped and partly built of tufa (a porous rock found
around springs) The west end is completely Norman but the majority of the rest
which curves slightly to the north was completed in the 14th century. The tower
was added on in the 18th century but may have replaced an earlier one. Inside there are two
effigies of medieval knights. The later one, in alabaster, is reputed to be that
of Sir Roger Vaughan who fought at Agincourt with Henry V. The
This
was the main branch of the Vaughans who traced their descent, through WALTER SEYS,
to MOREIDDIG
WARWYN from whom the family’s coat of arms, (three
boys heads with a snake entwined about their necks) came, and then to
DRYMBENOG ap , MAE NARCH, lord of Brycheiniog.
The
family had accumulated property at Llechryd and Cwn Du before Walter de
Seys or Walter Seys fought on the side of Edward III both in Scotland where
the prowess of the Welsh archers first came to the fore and then in the Wars in
France where the welsh archers proved so valuable both at Crecy and later
under Henry V at Agincourt. Many of these Welsh archers were mounted and
thus far more mobile, dismounting to fire at the enemy. They were
paid 6 pence per day – a very high rate for the time. He was a trusted
official of Edward III and was involved with the responsibility of sorting out
the estates of John Hastings Earl of Pembroke (a Minor) after the
excecution of Roger Mortimer who had previously been trustee for them.
See
Walter de Seys
Walter
Seys married the only daughter and heiress of Sir Walter Bredwardine and
lived at his wife’s home. His son Rhosier Hen inherited and married a
daughter of Sir Walter Devereaux a famous and influential family who later
became the Earls of Essex. Walter Seys also had a son called Roger
Vychan whose mother was Matilda verch
Ieuan ap Rees. He also held lands in the Lordship of Talgarth. (Cardiff
Library Brecknock deeds no 3 dated 26th Nov
1383).
Roger
Vaughan left three sons by Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam.
Watkin,
Thomas
ap Roger - who founded the Vaughan of Hergest family,
and
(Sir) Roger Vaughan - founder of Vaughan of Tretower family.
They
were brought up with their uterine brothers, William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (d.
1469), and Sir
Richard Herbert (d. 1469), sons of Sir William ap
Thomas of Raglan (d. 1446).
Gwladys died
in 1454.
Watkin
Vaughan was killed by an arrow one source says at
Another
of Watkins sons, LewisVaughan was described as being of Llanbedr,
Painscastle and Rhulen.
From
John Vaughan another of his sons were descended the Vaughans of Pont-faen.
Another
John Vaughan, an illegitimate son of Watkin Vaughan was father of Sir Hugh
Johneys - knight of the Sepulchre.
Watkin
Vaughan’s heir was Sir Thomas Vaughan who married Eleanor daughter of Robert
Whitney.
His
heir was Sir Richard Vaughan knighted at Tournai on the 14th October
1513, Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1530 and 1541 (therefore must have owned
considerable property in that county at the time) and married Anne daughter of
John Butler and heiress of the Dunraven and Pen-bre estates. The main line
of the family moved from Bredwardine to Dunraven.
Sir
Richard Vaughan’s heir Walter Vaughan was Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1557 and
was certainly living at Dunraven in 1584.
1610 – Rowland Vaughan of Bredwardine appealed
to the Earl of Plymouth to destroy his weirs on the River Wye as they
were interfering with the navigation of the River.
Walter
Vaughan’s heir was Thomas Vaughan, Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in
1566 and 1570. He married Catherine daughter of Sir Thomas Johnes of Abermarlias. Thomas
Vaughan purchased the estate of Fallestone
Wiltshire.
Walter
Vaughan’s second son was Charles Vaughan who was ancestor of the Vaughans of
Cwmgwili and Pen-y-banc.
Thomas
Vaughan’s heir was Sir Walter Vaughan who was knighted on 27th June 1603
and is buried at Tenby
Pembrokeshire.
Sir
Walter Vaughan’s heir was Sir Charles Vaughan who married Francis
daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Knolles of Porthaml. This brought the estates
of Porthaml into the Vaughan family.
Sir
Charles Vaughan’s son Thomas Vaughan inherited the estates. He sold
Dunraven. When he died without a male heir the main line died out. He left the
remaining estates to his sister Bridget Vaughan who in 1677 married John
Ashburnham later Lord Ashburnham.
At
Bredwardine a cadet branch - the Vaughans of Moccas held the
property.
The
first recorded was Watkin Vaughan on 17th Dec 1584 when he wrote to Lord Burghley. His
wife was Joan daughter of Miles ap harry of Newcourt and niece to
Blanch Parry Queen Elizabeth’s maid of honour.
Watkin
Vaughan of Moccas and Bredwardine had two
sons; Harry Vaughan who was the heir to Moccas and Bredwardine and
who married the great granddaughter of Hugh Lewis of Harpton, and
Rowland Vaughan who was a author and published a book on waterworks and had correspondence
with William Herbert Earl of Pembroke in 1610. His wife was
Harry
Vaughan of Moccas and Bredwardine heir was
Roger Vaughan who had matriculated at
His
son Harry Vaughan married Francis daughter of Walter Pye in 1635, they
had no heirs of the marriage and Francis Vaughan after Harry’s death
married Edward Cornewall of Stapeton and his son inherited Moccas and
purchased Bredwardine.
In Herefordshire, on the curve of the
river Wye just south of a village called Monnington on the A438 Hereford to Hay
road. A lane leads past a lodge then on to a classical brick built house
designed by Robert Adams and built by Anthony Keckley for the Cornewall
family. The grounds were laid out by Capability Browne. In the park there is a
Norman Church which has been restored. It was built of tufa in about 1130 and
has some 14c stained glass.
Vaughans of Clyro Radnershire.
A
cadet branch of the Vaughans
of Hergest and through them the Vaughans of
Bredwardine.
Roger
Vaughan third son of Thomas ap Roger Vaughan of Hergest married
Jane daughter of David ap Morgan ap John ap Phillip. Their heir was Roger
Vaughan who married Margaret daughter of Rhys ap Gwilym ap Llewelyn ap
Meyrick. He is supposed to have been the commissioner of tenths of
spiritualities in Radnorshire in January 1535 and would thus have been
involved in surveying the monastic houses and chapels which lead to the
dissolution of the monasteries.
Roger
Vaughan had at least two sons:
Roger
Vaughan the heir who married Margaret daughter of Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml and
Thomas
Vaughan of Llowes who married Sibyl daughter of
Howell ap Thomas Goch.
Thomas
Vaughan described then as being of Clyro was pardoned for murder on 14th August 1536.
Roger
and Thomas Vaughan came into conflict with Bishop Rowland Lee in 1538.
The cause is unknown but it was serious enough for Thomas Cromwell to order
them to be taken under escort to London and into his presence (At the time
Thomas Cromwell was a senior minister for the Crown).
Roger
Vaughan later achieved respectability and became sheriff of Radnorshire in
1576-7. After his death his wife Margaret married
as his second wife Charles
Vaughan of Hergest.
Roger
Vaughan and Margaret’s son Roger Vaughan inherited the Clyro estate. He
married Margery daughter of Richard Monington. This Roger
was on the Commission of the Peace in Radnorshire, Herefordshire and Brecknock,
deputy lieutenant of Radnorshire, Member of Parliament for Radnorshire 1572-83
and Sheriff of Brecknockshire in 1595-6. He was a very close friend of Sir Gelly Meyrick of Pembroke who was an adjutant to the Earl of Essex. (Meyrick was
executed with the Earl after the Essex rebellion of 1601).
Roger
Vaughan’s son John Vaughan who was Sheriff of Radnorshire in 1607
married the heiress of Richard Baynham of Aston Ingham Herefordshire and
the family moved to live on her estates.
Cross reference also to Vaughan Family of Courtfield Herefordshire.
Vaughans
of Dunraven – see Bredwardine.
Pontfaen.
An attractive commodious mansion
standing near the parish church on a steep slope above the upper waters of the
river Gwaun which flows for some seven miles to reach the sea at Fishguard.
Behind the mansion, the land rises to the north-east, to the hill tops of Mynydd
Morfil and Mynydd Cilciffeth, and before it, across the river the land rises to
Mynydd Melyn in Llanychlwydog and Mynydd Dinas in the parish of that name. The
original mansion stood there in early medieval days, and, with a few
architectural changes, has retained its status to the present day. The house is
protected by a copse of well grown trees. In 1811 Fenton observed: “Pontvaen
which was inhabited by a family of considerable influence in this country within
these sixty years, of the name of Laugharne, the heiress of which married
Rowland Philipps Esq., of Orlandon, whose son John Philipps Laugharne Esq.,
my old friend and school-fellow, is the present proprietor”. Some thirty years
afterwards S. Lewis wrote, “Pontvaen House, formerly residence of the
Laugharnes, and now, by purchase, together with the estate, including the whole of the
parish, the property of Henry Rees, Esq., is a handsome mansion, pleasantly
situated and surrounded with thriving plantations”. In 1863 the Pontfaen
estate in Pontfaen, Morfil, Llanychlwydog, and Llanychaer parishes, was advertised for sale,
and we are informed the demesne having been in the proprietor’s (Henry Rees)
own hands for some years, has been farmed, drained, and improved at a very
considerable outlay, under the best system of husbandry, and is now in splendid
condition. The mansion and offices having been built of late years and in
thorough repair.
Pontfaen had been the house of three
successive families for many centuries. The first known proprietors descended
from the Dyfed princeling, Gwynfardd Dyfed, whose arms were: azure a lion
rampant or between an orle of eight roses of the second, was borne by his
descendants.
In the years 1350-1400 the owner was
Rhys ap Robert ap Owen, said to have been the first of his line to settle at
Pontfaen, and was followed by his son Gwilym Vychan who was there in the
1440s. His son Llewelyn succeeded him and the estate passed to his only child,
the heiress, Llenca. She married shortly before 1491, John Vaughan of
Abergavenny descended from the Breconshire chieftain, Moreiddig Warwyn whose
coat of arms was: gules three boys’ heads each with a snake proper entwined
around each neck. John settled at his wife’s house, and was the first of
the Vaughans there. In those days Pontfaen was a substantial building, and in
1670 contained five hearths. Six generations of Vaughans continued at Pontfaen
which eventually passed to the ultimate heiress, Lettice Vaughan who
married in 1625 Francis Laugharne, younger brother of Major General Rowland
Laugharne, who took a prominent part in the Civil War in West Wales. Ann
Vaughan, grand-daughter and heir of the said John and Llenca, married her
kinsman, John Laugharne of St. Brides. Six generations of Laugharne lived at
Pontfaen until the marriage of the ultimate heiress, Anne Laugharne in
1750, to Rowland Philipps of Orlandon a cadet of the Picton Castle family, who
there upon adopted the surname Philipps Laugharne. Later descendants inherited
the baronetcy of the Picton Castle family, the last of them being Sir
Godwin Philipps who died aged 17 in 1857.
Most of the properties of the
Laugharnes lay in St. Brides and Haverfordwest, and the later generations took
little interest in their Pontfaen inheritance and in 1823 the Pontfaen estate
was sold to Henry Rees of Roch parish. Thus after over five and a half
centuries Pontfaen passed to a stranger. Some time after 1845, Henry Rees sold
Pontfaen to the Gowers of Castle Maelgwyn in
Refs: Pembs. RO, LT 1786; Dwnn, ii,
172-3, 244; NLW, Poyston Deeds; Francis Jones, “Pontfaen” in Journal NLW
?977; Fenton Tour Pembs. 1812; S. Lewis Topographical Dictionary of Wales.
-Illustration of the house attached.
Wednesday, July 28th, 1999
MRS E. M. VAUGHAN FISHGUARD (formerly
of the Gwaun Valley).
The death occurred on Wednesday at
“Parc-y” Nursing Home, Ambleston, of Elizabeth Mary Vaughan of Carreg
Onnen, Fishguard. She was aged 86.
In late 17c was the residence of James
Vaughan gent., son of Thomas Vaughan of Farthingshook, Pembrokeshire -
a cadet of the ancient family of Pontfaen. In 1670 was assessed for 5
hearths. In 1683 James Vaughan and his son James Vaughan mortgaged the
property in the sum of £90 to Thomas Vaughan of Vorlan, Maenclochog gent.,
and Margaret his wife. And the next year the same properties were mortgaged to
John Evans of Trefenty gent. This caused problems as to the true ownership
and the Vaughans settled at Gelligatty.
James Vaughan sixth son of Thomas
Vaughan of Farthingsbrook, Pembrokeshire is described as of Gelli
Gatti in September 1668. He was still living there in 1680. During the next
century the estate became part of the Golden Grove estate and is included
in the estate books for 1782-87.
Thomas David Rhys of Blaenant married
Sibyl fourth daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Vaughan of Llether Cadfan (alive
in 1597) husband and wife were living in 1613.
LLETHER CADFAN, Llangathen.
Llether Cadfan is located half a
mile north of the cross-roads of Broad Oak. It is large cross-passage house,
consisting of a l6th century part, now used as an outhouse, the other part
(which continues to be inhabited) has l7th century wooden transomed and
mullioned windows, and once had an ornate plaster ceiling: in the other part is
a stone staircase. A porch with an upper storey is the main entrance. The
interior doors, fireplaces, and panelling were removed to Edwinsford and
fitted into that house. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most interesting
traditional residences in the county. The earliest known owner was the family of
VAUGHAN family of Hergest, Kington, Herefordshire.
The first of the
1451 6 January. Thomas Vaughan of Hergest who
died in 1469 was appointed receiver of the lordship of Brecon.
Again
in 1460, he was placed on a commission to seize in the king’s name; the
castles and manors of the duke of
James
Vaughan of Hergest was the other commissioner. His
wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Croft. Their heir,
Charles Vaughan, was Member of Parliament for Radnorshire, 1553. His first
wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Baskerville of Eardisley, and the
second Margaret, daughter of Sir
William Vaughan of Porthaml and widow of Roger
Vaughan of Clyro.
According
to W. R. Williams, Robert
Vaughan, sheriff of Radnorshire, 1562-3 and 1567-8, and Member of Parliament for Radnor borough,
1554 and 1559, was his second son by the first wife, but this is not firmly
established. Walter Vaughan was the heir. He was followed by his son John
Vaughan, who corresponded with Sir Robert Harley about the plague at
Presteigne, 23 Sept. 1636. His heir was JAMES VAUGHAN, who matriculated at
VAUGHAN family of Llwydiarth, Mont.
This
well-known family was not of Montgomeryshire orgin. The first member,
Celynin (fl. early l4th cent.), is said to have fled from South Wales,
after killing the mayor of
The
Vaughans appear to have been constantly at feud with the Herberts which may
explain why they provided no members of parliament for Montgomeryshire, and only
one sheriff, John Owen Vaughan (in 1583); he married Dorothy,
daughter of Howell Vaughan of Glanllyn,
and sister of John Vaughan, who was sheriff of Merioneth in 1594. The son
of the sheriff’ of Montgomeryshire, OwenVaughan married. Catherine,
daughter of Morrice ap Robert, heir of Llangedwyn, by whom he had two sons,
John Vaughan (Inner Temple, 1606) and Sir Robert Vaughan who married
Catherine, daughter of William, lst Lord Powis.
The
family became extinct in the male line with Sir Robert Vaughan and
Llwydiarth and Llangedwyn were carried by his daughter Eleanor Vaughan
to her husband, John Purcell of Nantcribba, and by their daughter to her husband Edward
Vaughan of Glan-llyn and Llwydiarth, sheriff
of Montgomeryshire, 1688, and Member of Parliament for the Montgomery boroughs, and
subsequently for fifty-eight years for the county, and great-grandson of the
sheriff for Merioneth of 1594.
The combined estates of Llwydiarth,
Llangedwyn, and Glan-llyn were again carried by Anne, daughter and heiress
of Edward Vaughan, to her husband Sir Watkin Williams Wynn 3rd baronet
of Wynnstay, whose mother, Jane Thelwall, heir of Plas-y-ward, was herself fifth
in descent from John Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth. The marriage of Anne Vaughan of
Llwydiarth, North Wales to Watkin William-Wynn in1719 united a vast complex of
estates in North Wales with a landed income of between £15,000 and £20,000.
In
Mont. Coll., xiv, is an illustrated article on the thirty armorial shields
originally on the Vaughan pew in the church of Llanfihangelyng-Ngwynfa,
Montgomeryshire later transferred to Wynnstay chapel. The same volume also
contains a drawing of Llwydiarth (now demolished), taken from the duke of
Beaufort’s ‘Progress’ in 1684
VAUGHAN, EDWARD (d.
1661), Master of the Bench of the
He was the fourth son of Owen Vaughan,
Llwydiarth, Mont. (and Catherine, sole heiress of Maurice ap Robert, Llangedwyn.
Like his three brothers, John Vaughan, Sir Robert Vaughan, and Roger Vaughan, he
became a member of the
The Crosswood estate grew
substantially under his administration. At the beginning of his career he bought
lands worth £4,300 in Cardigan, and lands in Montgomeryshire at the end of
his life. The estate was transferred to his only son Edward Vaughan. His wife
Jane Steadman survived him. They had also two daughters Anne Vaughan and
Lucy Vaughan. There are two oil portraits of the chief Justice in Wales one
at Gwysaney and the other on loan to the National Library of Wales.
Rowland Vaughan (c. 1590-1667) of
Caer-gai, Merioneth, poet, translator and
Royalist; the eldest son of John Vaughan and his wife Ellen,
daughter of Hugh Nanney of Nannau, Merioneth; was born about 1590. He was a
descendant of the Vaughan family of Llwydiarth in Montgomeryshire, and it
appears that it was his grandfather Rowland Vaughan, was the first of the family
to live at Caer-gai. He spent some time at Oxford, although there is no
record that he graduated. He married Jane, daughter of Edward Price, Tref Prysg,
Llanuwchllyn and he was survived by three sons and three daughters: John
Vaughan who matriculated from Hart Hall (now Hertford College), Oxford, in
1635, aged 18, and married Catherine daughter of WilliamWynne of Glyn, Merioneth
and became sheriff of Merioneth in 1669-70; Edward Vaughan who matriculated from All Souls
College, Oxford, in 1634, aged 16, graduated B.A. there in 1637/8, and M.A. from
Jesus College in 1640, and became Vicar of Upchurch, Kent (1642), and
Llanynys, Denbs. (1647), and rector of Llangar (1662), Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog (1662), and Mallwyd (1664); William Vaughan;
Ellen Vaughan, Elsbeth Vaughan and Margaret Vaughan
Rowland Vaughan played a
prominent part in the public life of the county and like his father who was
sheriff in 1613 and 1620, he was appointed sheriff in 1642. He was a staunch
Royalist and it is believed that he fought as a captain at the battle of Naseby. Caet-gai
was burnt down by Cromwell’s soldiers on their way from Montgomeryshire
in 1645. Rowland Vaughan was imprisoned in Chester and his estate given to
a kinsman but after the end of the Civil War and litigation he recovered
it.
Rowland Vaughan died on 18th September
1667 and the Caer-gai estate passed to his eldest son John Vaughan whose
great grandaughter Mary Elizabeth married the Rev. Hetwall Henry Mainwaring
rector of Etwell who sold the estate together with that of Tref Prysg to
Sir Watkin William Wynn.
VAUGHAN family, of Trawsgoed (Crosswood;), Cardiganshire.
Until
1947, when the family residence, Trawsgoed, in the parish of Llanafan, Cards.,
became the headquarters of the agricultural advisory service for Wales, the
Vaughan family could claim continuous residence on the same site for six
centuries. Although it is a South Wales family (apart from inter-marriages with
Welsh and English families) the pedigree is traced to Collwyn ap Tangno, who is
usually associated with Caernarvonshire.
It
is claimed that the first member of the family to settle at Trawsgoed was
Adda ap Llewwlyn (c. 1200); the older pedigrees agree in stating that he
married Tudo (or Dudo) daughter and heiress of Ieuan Goch of Trawsgoed. Llywelyn
Fychan, served in the court of Ultra Aeron in 1292, his grandson became
deputy seneschal in 1353, other descendants became head and provosts of Creuddyn
in 1391, and again in 1434. Their great-grandson, Morus Fychan ap Ieuan, is said to have
stabilised the Fychan, hence Vaughan, as surname. The first Vaughan to marry a
Stedman of Strata Florida appears to have been Edward Vaughan (d.
1635), who married Jane the daughter of John Stedman. The eldest son of the
chief justice and Jane (Stedman) was Edward Vaughan (d. 1683) who in 1677
edited his father’s Reports. He was Member of Parliament for Cardigan, 26 Feb.
1678 /9 to 28 March 1681, and was for a short time one of the Lords of the
Admiralty. His wife was Letitia, daughter of Sir William Hooker. Their son, John
Vaughan (1670 ?-1721 ), was created (by William III, in 1695) baron of Fethard,
Co. Tipperary, and viscount Lisburne, Co. Antrim, in the peerage of Ireland. He
married (1 ), 18 Aug. 1692, Malet,
third daughter of the 2nd earl of Rochester, and (2) Elizabeth (d. Aug. 1716). By his
first wife Malet, he was the father of John Vaughan, the second viscount
Lisburne, and by Elizabeth, the father of Wilmot Vaughan, the third viscount;
both of them were successively lords-lieutenant of Cardiganshire. Wilmot
Vaughan, the third viscount, married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Thomas
Watson, Berwick-on-Tweed. The eldest son of this marriage was Wilmot
Vaughan, created earl of Lisburne in 1776. The career of their second son,
Lieutenant General Sir John Vaughan (1748 ?-95), K.B., was extensive. He
served in
(Ysbyty Ifan - the mansion disappeared a long time ago but the ‘chapel of Pant Glas’ in the parish church retains its name). The family belongs to the same stock as those of Plas Iolyn, Voelas, Cernioge, and Rhiwlas.
Thomas
Vaughan (I) was the grandson of Rhys ap Meredydd of Ysbyty Ifan, and was
the younger son of Robert ap Rhys; in his will (1534), Robert ap Rhys left his
Dolgynwal lands to ‘Thomas Vichan ap Robert ap Rice.’ This Thomas
Vaughan was twice married, and the following line is descended from his second
marriage, with Catherine Gonway of Bryn Euryn, whose will was proved in 1588; as
William Llyn (d. 1580) wrote an elegy on him, he too must have died before 1580.
His heir was Thomas Vaughan (II), who is mentioned in cywyddau written by
his friend Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn; he is said to have died in 1654, but this is very
doubtful, for a will proved in 1640 suggests that he was already dead. He was
succeeded by his eldest son, John Vaughan, who was alive in 1640; he, too, is
said to have died. in 1654 but, again, this is very doubtful, for he is referred
to in a document dating from about 1636 as an ‘old man’ (additionally, it is
stated that the estate is worth £400 a year), and according to the pedigree in
‘Llyfr Silm’ he was survived by his son Henry Vaughan; his widow Joan
Townshend, of Shropshire) died at Pant Glas at the end of 1663 or beginning of
1664, at the age of 74. John Vaughan was succeeded by Henry Vaughan (I) who
is, almost unanimously stated to have been killed in the Civil War in the
assault on Hopton castle, Shropshire, in the month of Feb. 1644; but the author
of “The Garrisons of Shropshire, 1642-8”, claims that the “Captain
Vaughan” slain at Hopton was one of
the unrelated Vaughans
of Shropshire. At any rate, Henry Vaughan was
‘deceased’ before Feb. 1654/5, when his eldest son Thomas Vaughan became
a member of Gray’s Inn; his widow, Margaret, daughter of Bonham Norton of
Church Stretton died 8 Dec. 1669, at Glyn in Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, at the age
of 91. They had four children. (1) Thomas Vaughan (III); little is known
about him. He became a member of Gray’s Inn in Feb. 1645/5; and married
Lucy, daughter of chief justice Sir John Vaughan, of Trawsgoed, Cards., and there are several references to him in the Gwydir
papers; but the dates of his birth and death are alike unknown. Neither his name
nor those of his sons occur in a family will signed in July 1693 and proved the
following year, but he was certainly alive in 1681. He had two sons John Vaughan (who
was living in 1692) and Thomas Vaughan (IV); Thomas probably lived to
inherit the estate, but by 1697 or 1698 he, too, was dead, for the head of the
family in that year was (2)Henry Vaughan (II). There was a ‘Henry
Vaughan’ who was churchwarden of the parish church at Llandrillo-yn-Rhos in
1677, and as the widow of Henry Vaughan (I) d. at Glyn in that parish, it
is reasonable to suppose that he also was living there about 1697. He was
sheriff in 1698, when he was referred to as ”Henry Vaughan of Pant Glas,”
and so he was called in the will (1699) referred to above, and in the
Parochialia of Edward Lhuyd. The date of his death is not known. (3)Katherine
Vaughan died a spinster at Pant Glas shortly after 1700, leaving money for
the building of alms-houses for women at Ysbyty Ifan. (4) Anne Vaughan (who
was possibly the elder daughter) who married into the family of the Williamses
of Marl; as her brothers and her sister died without
heirs the Pant Glas lands were absorbed into the Marl estate.
Another
member of the family is deserving of mention, namely Richard Vaughan (1621 - 1700)
-erroneously stated by Griffth to be a son of Henry Vaughan (I), but it is by no
means certain who he was. He fought in the Civil War, and was blinded. In July
1663 he was elected one of the ‘Poor Knights of Windsor,’ and died. 5 June
1700 ‘in his eightieth year,’ in
Vaughan
Family of Corsygedol.
This is a North Wales Family and is
descended from Osbwrn
Wyddel who married the daughter and
heiress of the old Welsh family of Corsygedol. She was the ward of Llywelyn the Great.
They
had a son Cynwrig who had a son Llywellyn who had a son Griffith. His
wife was said to have been Lowry neice of Owain Glyn Dwr. They had a
son Einion who had a son Griffith. He had a third son Griffith who
inherited Corsygedol. This
His
son William
Vaughan of Corsygedol who died in
1633 was High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1613 and 1632 and rebuilt Plas Hen Llanystumdwy in
1607 and the gatehouse at Corsygedol in 1630. He was interested in
literature and a great friend of Ben Johnson. His son who died only three years after
his father in 1636 had quite a reputation in
(From
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES JOURNAL - XIII THE DECLINE OF THE WELSH SQUIRES).
No intermarriage with merchant families
took place among the Merioneth gentry, and at no time did landed wealth mingle
with fortunes made in trade. It was customary for partners to be sought for
within the class of squires to which a family belonged. Mesalliance was
discouraged but it was not unkown. Heiresses of course, ranked even higher in the marriage market. In
the marriage contract of William Vaughan of Corsygedol and Catherine Nanney in
1732, provision was made to raise a portion of £4000, and the Nannau estate was
mortgaged to secure this sum, although Catherine eventually inherited the
estate. The ratio of jointure to portion was more generous in the marriage
settlements of the eighteenth century than in those of previous times. Before
the marriage was solemnized between Hugh Vaughan of Hengwrt and Jonet Nanney in
1719, a dowry of £2500 was decided upon, but the parties to the contract
haggled over the size of the jointure. Robert Vaughan proposed £250, but
the bride’s mother insisted on £300 and stipulated that £2000 of the £2500
should be laid out to buy land of the value of £100 a year towards the
jointure.
At the same time, one branch of the
Vaughans of Merioneth was absorbed into the orbit of another substantial
Only rarely did estates come onto the
market, but when they did they were absorbed not by the new landlords but into
existing aggregations of property. The Lloyds of Plas-yn-ddol in Edeirnion,
became extinct in the late seventeenth century, and their property was
ultimately bought up by Colonel Vaughan of Rug.
Both the Spartan and the prodigal were
to be found among the members of the landed families, and the folly of the one
could undo utterly the work of the other. The danger was ever present that what
one generation acquired the next would dissipate. For the preservation of
inherited wealth, one weak link in the chain could be disastrous. Just such a
spendthrift, one who fell prey to high living and whittled away a fortune, was
Hugh Vaughan of Hengwrt. At the height of misfortune he was literally run out of
all: in 1778 he quitted his estate and fled before the bailiff. Hengwrt however,
had a history of indebtedness that may be traced back to the tenure of Hugh’s
father, Robert Vaughan. It was he who entered into the mortgage of £600 with
William Powell of Welshpool in 1749, a commitment which later bore heavily
on his hapless son. Hugh Vaughan inherited the encumbered estate in 1750 but his
improvidence during the following decade forced him to arrange a second mortgage
in December 176I with William Owen of Porkington. After one year this mortgage,
now worth £2500 was conveyed to the Rev. Hugh Pryse. At about this time,
Vaughan’s debt to Powel amounted to £4,200. In April 1765 a mortgage was
arranged with Robert, the heir of William Powell, in order to clear the one of
1749. In this way the principal was continually growing, to say nothing of the
creeping tide of interest. When in 1765 Pryse’s mortgage was made over to
Sinai Lloyd, a widow of Oswestry, Vaughan’s loan from this source amounted to
£10000 Madam Lloyd’s son was the attorney, Robert Lloyd, who,
through his mother and by his marriage to Robert Powell s daughter, eventually
inherited both the chief mortgages on the Hengwrt estate.
The lawyer did not scruple to foreclose
on the mortgages. But Vaughan’s insolvency first prompted Lloyd to distrain
upon the formers chattels in the early 1760’s. The gentry rarely shrank from
helping a neighbour in trouble, and the squires of Rhiwlas, Maesyneuadd and
Rhiwddeiliog now joined together to buy up the goods on Vaughan’s behalf
for £400. In 1766, however, the lands belonging to the “manor” of Hengwrt
were advertised for sale by Robert Lloyd without Vaughans permission. An auction
was averted, but for the next nine years the estate was jointly managed with
Vaughan playing into Lloyd’s hands by his unchecked extravagance. Lloyd
succeeded in paying certain overdue annuities charged on the estate; in
obtaining a mortgage of £22500 on Hengwrt from Sir Henry Bridgeman in
1770; and at the Merioneth Quarter Sessions in August 1771 in effecting a common
recovery on the estate for his own use.
Vaughan’s hopes were renewed in 1775
on his succession to the Nannau estate as heir to his mother. In the following
year he started proceedings for the recovery of Hengwrt. The conflicting titles
to the property remained unresolved, and some tenants refused to attend to
Lloyd. It was at this juncture that John Lloyd of Berth was appointed
attorney to
The case was protracted for years in
Chancery, and in the summer of 1778 came the expected bankruptcy order, attended
by the inevitable demands of creditors. Two years later Robert Lloyd secured a
writ of attachment to Nannau. Small wonder that John Lloyd believed that there was no limit to
his ambition, and that there was a “deeper design” to dispossess the
Vaughans of their Merioneth estates and deprive them of their influence.
When a commission to examine witnesses
was directed out of Chancery to sit at Dolgellau in 1780, John Lloyd was reduced
to this defence :. . . “to prove deficiecncy of Mr. Vaughan’s education
& his being unacquainted with the Common Rules of Arithmetick”. By this
time Vaughan was in “exile” at Rug which had been inherited by his
brother, Robert Howell Vaughan, from their aunt, Mrs. Lloyd. On Hugh’s
death in January Robert Howell Vaughan, once an apothecary and surgeon at Dee
Bank, Chester already drawing an annual income of £300 from Rug, came into
possession of Nannau and Hengwrt as well. Confronted with this formidable
combination of territories, Robert Lloyd’s concerns deteriorated, and in July
1783 Nannau was recovered for Vaughan. In 1784-5 a second Chancery commission of
inquiry was instituted, but this was soon abandoned and the case submitted to
arbitration by Richard Richard and John Mitford (later Baron Redesdale).
The eventual result of their recommendations was the decree of 1788 by a Master
in Chancery commanding the restitution of the Hengwrt estate, disencumbered
of £6000 with the grant of costs of £12000 against Robert Lloyd. John
Lloyd had benefitted the Vaughans to the extent of £50,000.
Thomas Vaughan of Cystanog –
Abergwili.
During Elizabethan days was the home of
the minor landowning family of Griffith whose daughter married Thomas Vaughan a
younger son of Plas Gwyn descended from the Golden Grove family. About 1660
Elen daughter of Thomas Vaughan squire of Cystanog married John Thomas John
farmer of Penddaulwyn. The last of the family Thomas Vaughan died unmarried
in 1767 the estate then passed down through the female line. No illustration of
the house has survived. In 1883 the last owners of the estate died and it was
necessary to try to trace heirs – the heirs who eventually were traced were
the descendents of Elen Vaughan and John Thomas John.
Vaughan family of Courtfield Herefordshire.
From Kerne Bridge, the Wye makes
an almost complete eight mile circuit to arrive back within a mile of the
bridge. In doing so it encircles Coppet Hill a bare bracken covered expanse
which contains Courtfield, once the home of the Vaughans, an old Catholic
family. To the Georgian house and Victorian chapel, has been added a modern
extension, looking like a motor way cafe, its acres of glass reflecting the
morning sun. Henry of Monmouth is said to have been taken to Courtfield for
the sake of his health when very young, but the nursery has gone, although two
of the legendary cradles, in which he certainly did not sleep, have survived,
one of c1450 in the London Museum, the other, much later, at Badminton.
The
Being outside Herefordshire, and part
of a strongly recusant county like Monmouthshire, Coppet Hill was a useful
Catholic refuge in the penal times. This is commemorated by the fine wooden
carving of a priest kneeling at prayer, which is said to have been carved by a
fugitive hiding near the house. It is known as the Luck of Courtfield.
Family
was descended from William ap Jenkin alias Herbert Lord of Wern-ddu Monmouthshire in
1352. (Descent of the family in Burkes Landed Gentry).
In
1592 John ap Gwilym of Gillow Herefordshire purchased the manor of
Welsh Bicknor. His daughter and heiress married James Vaughan a
descendant of William ap Jenkin and Howell ap Thomas of Perth-hir.
Their
son William Vaughan who died in 1601 married Jane or Joan daughter and
heiress of Richard Clarke of Wellington Herefordshire. Jane or
Joan’s name appears in the Recusants Rolls often between 1592 and 1619.
She like many of the family who followed was a Roman Catholic and was thus
persecuted.
Their
son John Vaughan was the first to use Courtfield. A brother Thomas Vaughan became
a Roman catholic priest and was ordained in
A
son Richard Vaughan inherited Courtfield but had no children.
Richard
Vaughan’s halfbrother John Vaughan inherited Courtfield and Welsh Bicknor as
well as the manors of Ruardean, Glostershire and Clyro, Radnorshire from
his other halfbrother John Vaughan of Huntingham. John
Vaughan of Courtfields second wife was
Two
of this John Vaughan’s brothers Richard Vaughan and William Vaughan fought
on the side of the Young Pretender at Culloden and
fled to Spain after the defeat of Prince Charles forces. They were
both outlawed in 1745 and specifically excluded from the pardon proclaimed
by George II in 1747.
William
Vaughan became a General in the Spanish Army.
Richard
Vaughan also settled in
One
of these sons, William Vaughan, on the death of his uncle John Vaughan,
inherited the estates, he died in 1796 and was succeeded by his only son William
Michael Thomas John Vaughan.
William
M T J Vaughan was followed by his son John Francis Vaughan who had been
born in 1808. John F Vaughan married Eliza Louisa daughter of John Rolls, the
Hendre Monmouthshire and they had several children among which were Herbert
Vaughan (Cardinal Vaughan) Archbishop of Westminster, Roger
William Vaughan Archbishop of Sydney, Kenelm
Vaughan, priest in Spain and North America, Joseph Vaughan O.S.B. founder and
prior of St Benedict’s monastery Fort Augustus, Bernard Vaughan a Jesuit Preacher and John Vaughan co-adjutor bishop of
Salford. Four of the sisters became nuns.
John
F Vaughan died in 1878 and was succeeded by Cardinal Vaughan. On his death
in 1903 he was succeeded by his brother Francis Baynham Vaughan who died in
1919 was succeeded by his son Charles
Jerome Vaughan who died in 1948. He was Camerario Segreto do
Cappa e Spada to Pope Pius X. Two of his
brothers were priests and one Francis Vaughan became bishop of Menevia.
One of his sisters became a nun.
Vaughan family of Golden Grove.
Claimed
descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn prince of Powys.
The
first member of the family to settle at Golden Grove was John Vaughan.
His
son Walter Vaughan marries as his first wife Katherin second daughter of
Gruffydd ap Rhys of Dinefwr and then Letitia daughter of Sir John Perrot.
He
was succeeded by his eldest son John Vaughan born in 1572 and who died in
1634. He served under the earl of Essex in the Irish campaign of 1599 and
was Member of Parliament for
1613 Sir John Vaughan granted to
Christopher Bidmede a lease for 3 lives of a moiety of the capital messuage
called Bryn y Beirdd (Llandeilo).
1618 Phillip Vaughan of Carmarthen held
a mortgage on the Abercyfor Estate at Llandyfaelclog.
John
Vaughan was succeeded by his eldest and only surviving son, Richard Vaughan (1600?-86)
who had been knighted on the occasion of the coronation of Charles I in Feb.
1625.
1632
Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan of Golden Grove was granted the lease of Friars Park
Carmarthen in fee simple – the site of the old Friary. It
continued as part of the Golden Grove estate till 1912 – a Tesco
Superstore stands on the site now.
He was a Member of Parliament for
Carmarthenshire, 1624-9, and admitted to Gray’s
1674 John Vaughan of Plas Gwyn leased
Cilgodan estate for 98 years. Later Cilgodan belonged to John Lloyd JP who
married Eleanora Vaughan of Plas Gwyn.
1712-13 Dorothy daughter of Richard
Vaughan and widow of John Parker of
John
Vaughan (1640-1713), 3rd earl of Carbery, matriculated
from Christ Church; Oxford, 23 July 1656, and was admitted to the Inner Temple
in 1658. He was knighted in 1661 and represented the borough of
John Vaughan of Golden Grove (1757 –
1804) portrait by William Williams 1785.
“In another four miles the road
passes the turning to Llanfihangel, Aberbythych and Golden Grove. The Welsh
name, Gelli Aur, is believed to have been a corruption of Gelli Oer, the Cold
Grove, for it lay low down in the valley facing north, but scarcely a trace
remains of the ancient home of the Vaughans, Earls of Carbery, for the house has
been rebuilt higher up, on a new site, in a florid Gothic style suggestive of a
Scottish castle. It is now an Agricultural
In a catalogue of the pictures at
Golden Grove it said “The Vaughans of Golden Grove derive their descent from
Hugh Vaughan, Esq., of Kidwelly, Gentleman Usher to King Henry VII”.
In the seventeenth and early part of
the eighteenth centuries, the Earls of Carbery were the leading family of
south-west
Bishop Taylor married as his second
wife Joanna Bridges, heiress of the estate of Mandinam, Llangadog, and lived
chiefly in Carmarthenshire until 1658, except for short visits to London, and
repeated imprisonments.
The direct line of the Vaughans became
extinct on the death of the third Earl’s granddaughter, Anne Vaughan, Duchess
of Bolton, and the estate passed by her will to her distant relative, Richard
Vaughan of Shenfield in Essex, whose son willed it to the family of Cawdors
of Stackpole Court in Pembrokeshire, a cadet branch of the ducal house of
Argyle.
Perhaps the most remarkable and
interesting of the Vaughans of Golden Grove was William Vaughan, brother of the
first Earl of Carbery, who was born at Golden Grove in 1577, lived at
Llangyndeyrn, to the south-west, and was buried there. Poet and pioneer, he has
been called “one of the most quixotic figures in national history”. He was a
great scholar, travelled widely, and wrote voluminously in a fantastic vein of
his own, “religious almost to a point of mania”. One of his best-known
works, The
Golden Grove, Moralized in Three bookes: A Work very Necessary for all such as
would know how to Gouerne them selves, their
Houses or their Country contained much good sense, and a
real understanding of the rural conditions and problems of his day. In Book III
he wrote “. . . now-a-dayes, yeomanry is decayed, hospitalitie gone to wracke
and husbandrie almost quite fallen”, which has a familiar ring even to our
ears, but he was too much of an idealist for his conception of the reciprocal
obligations and duties of tenant and lord to be accepted by his contemporaries,
and when he tried to put them into practice in the New World, the venture was
not a success.
When his friend Sir William Alexander was
attempting to colonize Nova Scotia, Vaughan saw in Newfoundland “the next
land beyond Ireland” a country “reserved by God for us Britons”. He
obtained a sub-grant of territory from Sir Francis Bacon and a company
of adventurers, and paid for the passage of a number of Welsh men and women to
settle there, in 161X. John Guy of
New Cambriol’s plante sprung from Golden Grove
Old Cambria’s soil up to the skies doth raise
For which let Fame crown him with sacred bays.
The colonists met with endless
disasters. The lawless fishermen of the
Although it was one of the earliest
attempts at colonizing Newfoundland, and had lasted for twenty years of
ceaseless toil,Vaughan’s genuine effort at colonisation is seldom remembered
now. It is not even listed among the failures, although it lasted longer than
some of the contemporary efforts, and to-day is commemorated solely in the name
of Newfoundland farm in Vaughan’s native parish.
Epitaph of Lady Vaughan in St Peter’s Church Carmarthen.
Kinde Reader Vnderneath this Tombe doth
Lye
Choice Elixer of Mortalite
By carefull providence Great Wealthe
did store
For her Relations and the Poore
In
In Terra coed to her Eternal Prayse
Where by her loanes in spite of Adverse
fates
She did preserve Mens persons and
Estates
A great Exemplar to our Nation
Her to imitate in Life and action
Would you then know who was this good
woman
Twas virtuous Anne the Lady Vaughan
She died August the 15 Ann° 1672
Being aged 84 years.
The followings comes from Penarth
Manuscript 156 in the National Library of Wales The author is
unknown but it is believed that it was compiled by Emanual Evans of
Pensingrur in parish of Llangeler Carmarthenshire and that he also was the
writer of the Golden Grove book – he lived about 1680 to 1760.
In this manuscript ab is used to mean
son off of daughter of as is ap. The manuscript
gives heirs – it is not safe to accept that they are sons or daughters - in some
cases they might be of other relationship.
Remember that the Earls of Carbery were
Vaughans
as were the Fychan’s.
Gwaythfoed
Prince of Cardigan March as in the decent of Price of Gogerddan North Wales genealogists
say that Gweaethfoed fawr of Powys & not he of Cardigan & married
to Morvydd daughter of Ynyr King of Gwent was ancestor to the earl of
Carbury. I am not yet satisfyd that there were two Gwaethfoeds & therefore
leave it indefinite which of these is original to this
pedigree.
Gwerystan
ab Gwaethfoed married Nest daughter to Cadell ap Brochwell Prince of Powys
Cynfyn ab
Gwerystan married Angharad daughter and heir of Medd ap Owen Prince of
Wales
Bleddyn
ab Cynfyn married Haer daughter to Cyllyn ab Blaiddrhydd o’r Gest
Medd
ab Bleddyn married Hynych daughter and heir to Eynydd ab Morris, her mother
was daughter and heir to Rees ab Meirchion
Madog
ab Medd married Efa daughter to Madig ab Vrien ab Einion ab Les ab Idnerth
benfras of Maesbrook
Einion
Ffyll married Arddyn daughter to Madog Vaughan ap Madoc ap Einion Hael ap
Urien of Powys – Mr Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt makes her daughter to
Madog Fychan ap madig ab einion hael, ab Urien of main Gwynedd
Rhun
ab Einion married Jonet daughter of John, Lord Strange of Knocking
Cyhylin
ab Rhun Married Efa daughter to Gronw ab Carogan Saethydd Hinfach
Evan
ab Cyhylyn married Eva daughter to Adda ap Awr of Trevor
Madog
Goch married Lleucu daughter to Hywell Goch ab Mared Van ab Medd
henab Hywell ab Medd ab Bleddyn ap Cynfin
Madoc
Cyffyn married Alswn daughter and heir to
David
ap Madoc married Cathrin daughter of Morgan ap Davidd ap Madoc ap Davidd
Van ap David ap Griffith ap Iorwerth ap Howel ap Maredd ap Sandde
David
Fychan of Garth eryr married Gwervyl daughter to Gruffydd ab Rhys ab
Gryffydd ab Madoc ab Iorwerth ab Madog ab Ryryd ffaidd
Gryffydd
Fychan married Tybod daughter to Medd ab Tudor ab Gronw, ab Hywell y gadeir
Hugh
Fychan of Cedweli married Jane daughter to Morus ab Owein ap
John
Fychan of Golden Grove married Catherine daughter to Henry ab Trahaiarn
Morgan of Midlescomb Esq. –
Walter
Fychan of Golden Grove esq., married Mary daughter to Gruffidd Rice fitz
Urien Esq
John
Earl of Carbery married Margaret daughter to Sir Gelly Meirick Kt.
Richard,
Earl of Carbery, Lord Molingar and Emlyn, Kt of Bath, Lord President of the
marches of Wales and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Council married:
1]
Bridget daughter and heir to Thomas, Lord of Llanllur
2]
Ffances daughter and heir to Sir John Altham of Orbi in Oxfordshire Kt
3]
Kt
= Knight
Kt
of
Sir Henry Vaughan “Knight Colonel to
his late Majesty Charles I who died in 1676 – monument in Llandydie
Church.
Llanelli – church.
The church has been very drastically
restored, and only the tower is old, but the mural monuments have survived, and
much of the history of Llanelly families can be gleaned from them. The oldest is
to Walter Vaughan, who died in 1683. Another commemorates Sir Thomas Stepney,
the last baronet, “for more than 30 years groom of the Bedchamber to H.R.H.
Frederick, Duke of York”, who died in 1825. The inscription to John Vaughan of
Stepney, born 1730, who died at the age of two months and three days reads:
Blest Innocent whose race so soon was
run
Twas but a step and finish’d when
begun
So clear thy virtue, such thy early
bliss
That many ripe in Years and rich in
wickedness
Shall wish as often as they see Thy
Shrine
Their Lives as Sinlefs or as Short as
thine
Now say what made thee go so soon away:
Heav’n called me Hence; I could
no longer stay.
Church at Pembrey has numerous
wall tablets to the Vaughans of Trimsaran
(From Modern Wales – David Williams Murray
1950
Sir Griffith Vaughan - burgess of
Welshpool captured and put to death as a heretic. Sir John Oldcastle a follower
of John Wyclif.
Dr John Vaughan from Carmathenshire –
who was one of the three appointed to inspect the welsh monasteries in 1535/6
– he is on record as begging Cromwell to give him some of the abbeys to
farm – It is certain that the Golden Grove family built their fortune
initially on the land they obtained from the dissolution of the monasteries.
Amongst the properties he did obtain was the monastry of Grace Dieu in
Monmouthshire a long way from Carmarthenshire.
1618 Sir John Vaughan of Golden Grove was a strong supporter of James 6th of Scotland and 1st of England. He went with his son Prince Charles to Madrid as comptroller of the prince’s
household –
His son Richard Vaughan went as well.
The Cadet Families of the Vaughans of Golden Grove.
John Vaughan of Golden Grove died
in 1574.
He left two sons:
Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove who
died in 1597 and
Henry Vaughan of Plas Gwyn who died
approximately 1598.
Walter Vaughan six sons:
Sir John Vaughan of Golden Grove (later 1st Earl of
Carbery).
Sir William Vaughan of Trecoed (Golden
Grove and Trecoed were later united).
Walter Vaughan of Llanelly.
Hugh Vaughan of Llether Llesty.
Sir Henry Vaughan of Derwydd.
Richard Vaughan of Derllys.
Henry Vaughan of Plas Gwyn had
three sons.
George Vaughan of Plas Gwyn and
Llandefaelog.
Thomas Vaughan of Cystanog.
Henry Vaughan of Glanrhydw.
Thomas Vaughan of Plas Gwyn Llandyfaelog.
From the earliest part of the reign of
Elizabeth 1 until the death of the last squire in 1769, home of a cadet branch
of the Vaughan family of Golden Grove. The old house was pulled down in 1818 and
a new farm built nearby.
Henry Vaughan and his wife
Catherine Morgan of Midlescwm – he was the younger son of John Vaughan of
Golden Grove settled at Plas Gwyn in 1560 – seven generations of the
family followed him there. Henry Vaughan was Sheriff of Carmarthen Town in
1574 and Mayor in 1598. His grandson John Vaughan was High Sheriff of
the county in 1643 and a royalist who was fined for his attachment to the King.
A later squire John Vaughan was a supporter of the SPCK (Society for the
Spread of Christian Knowledge) and well known for his liberality until his
death in 1720. Eugene Vaughan JP (Justice of the Peace – a magistrate) High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1746 by his unthriftiness
alienated his estate of 5600 acres. He was the last of the family to live at
Plas Gwyn. He left 14 children by his two wives and what was left of the estate was
shared between the co-heiresses of his first wife who sold Plas Gwyn. The last
of his male descendants was Thomas Vaughan who died in 1968.
1639 Henry Vaughan of Derwydd gave
evidence in the Court of Chivalry (a case involving unlawful use of a coat of
arms).
1657 Sir
Henry Vaughan of Derwydd and Tygwyn purchased Cefn Triscoed, Llandeilo.
It remained in the family ownership and appeared in the rentals of Madam Bevan.
Llether Cadfan is located half a
mile north of the cross-roads of Broad Oak. It is large cross-passage house,
consisting of a l6th century part, now used as an outhouse, the other part
(which continues to be inhabited) has l7th century wooden transomed and
mullioned windows, and once had an ornate plaster ceiling: in the other part is
a stone staircase. A porch with an upper storey is the main entrance. The
interior doors, fireplaces, and panelling were removed to Edwinsford and fitted
into that house. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most interesting
traditional residences in the county. The earliest known owners were the family
of Vaughan descended from Elystan Glodrudd. Thomas ap Thomas Fychan of Llether
Cadfan was the father of Gwilym ap Thomas, Esq., of the Body to King Henry
VIII. He married Gwenllian daughter of Llewelyn ap Gwilym of nearby Bryn
Hafod. Their son David Vaughan succeeded, and it was his son Thomas
Vaughan who was in possession in 1597. Thomas Vaughan was the
last of the male line and died leaving only daughters as co-heiresses.
Thomas David Rhys of Blaenant married
Sibyl Vaughan fourth daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Vaughan of Llether Cadfan (alive
in 1597) husband and wife were living in 1613.
A popular tradition, relates that
Cromwell went out of his direct route to spend a night at Golden Grove near
Llandilo, the seat of the leading Royalist in
Herbert M. Vaughan, 1937.
Hirlas
Horn at Golden Grove.
Among other relics at Golden Grove was
a drinking Horn exhibited beautified with silver artifice being the first
vessell Henry Tudor Earl of Richmond afterwards made King of England by the
name of Henry VII drank out of after his landing at Milford Haven in
Pembrokeshire in order to the marrying the Lady Elizabeth and deposing
Richard III.
This Horn was presented by the King
himself to the noble Earls of Carbery where it hath remained ever since, and is
kept among the noble Earles choicest Raritys. The Foot is of silver in the form
of a mount upon which stands a Dragon and a Greyhound of the same imitation
of the supporters of the Royal Armes of Henry VII which follow on the other
side the leaf shervington the dexter side a Red Dragon the Engsigne of
Cadwalader the last king of the BRITAINS from whom by his male line he
derives his pedigree according to Sandford’s Genealogy of Kings P434, and on
the sinister side a Greyhound argent collar’d Gules, which he gave in right of
his wife the Queen, Elizabeth of York descended from the Nevils by Anne her
Grandmother the daughter of Ralph Nevill Earl of Westmoreland and wife of
Richard Duke of York.
The Portcullis upon the kipping or rim
of the mouth is in token of his descent by his mother from the noble family of
the Beauforts, to this device on his, Mansole or Royale Sepulture at
ALTERA SECURITAS
as who should say. As a Portcullis
is a further security to a gate, so his mother corroborated his on her Titles
from this Device he instituted a Pursuivant at Armes and named him Portcullis as
from the leading supporter y Red Dragon had been instituted by him also y
Pursivant called Rono Dragon.
The Roses on the rim I suppose to speak
the
This was according to Thomas Dinley,
The Account of the Official Progress of His Grace Henry the First Duke of
Beaufort through Wales 1684. [Bosworth field Battle was Aug 22 1485].
Sir Henry Vaughan (1587 ?-1659 ?),
Royalist, was the 6th son of Walter
Vaughan of Golden Grove and a
younger brother of John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery. He settled at Derwydd. He
was sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1620 and Member of Parliament for
the county in 1621-9 and 1640. He was knighted at
1639 Henry Vaughan of Derwydd gave
evidence in the Court of Chivalry (a case involving unlawful use of a coat
of arms).
1658 Sir Henry Vaughan of Derwydd and Tygwyn purchased
Cefn Triscoed Llandeilo. It remained in the family
ownership and appeared in the rentals of Madam Bevan.
VAUGHAN, JOHN ( 1663-1722),
During the Iast twenty years of his
life John Vaughan was the leader of religious and educational life in
Carmarthenshire. He and his friend Sir John Philipps of Picton castle, Pembs., succeeded
with the aid of the S.P.C.K. in making their respective counties the most
progressive in
His elder brother Richard Vaughan (1653-1724),
followed his father at the Bar, became bencher and treasurer of Gray’s Inn,
Member of Parliament for Carmarthen borough and chief justice of
Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire. He married
Arabella Philipps of Picton Castle and was a brother-in-law to Griffith
Jones, Llanddowror.
Vaughans – Derllys Court Merthyr Carmarthenshire.
Derllys Court became the
property of Richard Vaughan, a younger son of Walter Vaughan of Golden
Grove by the early 17c.
He married Elinor Protheroe of
Nantyrhelig and was High Sheriff in 1631.
His son John Vaughan enlarged the
mansion in 1660.
His son John Vaughan married his
relation Elizabeth
daughter of Thomas Thomas of Meidrim in 1692. He died in 1722 and the
estate was split between his three daughters Arabella, Elizabeth and Bridget (Madam
Bevan) who as her share received 92 properties. She married Arthur Bevan of
Laugharne and died without issue in 1779.
Vaughans
– Derwydd
Sage Philips of Derwydd, heiress
to the property married Sir Henry Vaughan of Golden Grove who came to live
at Derwydd. He was High Sheriff in 1620 and died in 1660. Their daughter married
her kinsman John Vaughan and their son Richard Vaughan inherited. He
died without issue and the property was left to a niece.
Anne, described as grand daughter of
James Williams of Abercothi married about 1725 John Vaughan a younger
son of Gwynne Vaughan of Jordonston in Pembrokeshire. John and Anne settled
at Dolgwn. He died in 1770.
Their eldest son Gwynne Vaughan was
High Sheriff in 1773.
WILLIAM
VAUGHAN (1575-1641) author and colonial pioneer, was the second son of Walter
Vaughan of Golden Grove and brother of John Vaughan, lst earl of Carbery. He matriculated from
See
Also F. Marquardt, A Critical Edition of William Vaughan’s ‘The Golden
Grove’ (see Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations (North Western Univ.,
Chicago;, xvii, 1949, 30-4).
In 1616 Sir William (Vaughan) obtained
a sub-grant of land from the “Company of Adventurers to Newfoundland”. This
was a commercial enterprise headed by Sir Francis Bacon, to whom James I had
granted authority to colonise the island. Vaughan’s territory lay on the south
coast of the curiously-shaped eastern part of Newfoundland. It included
New Cambriol’s planter, sprung from
Golden Grove,
Old Cambria’s soil up to the skies
doth raise
For which let Fame crown him with
sacred bays
In 1617 Sir William sent a number of
Welsh colonists of both sexes to Cambriol at his own expense. He had intended to
sail with them to settle permanently there. But ill-health prevented him from
leaving
When Sir Richard and his newcomers
arrived, they found that the original settlers had made very poor progress.
Little had been achieved in any direction. The new Governor, in fact, decided
that the earlier emigrants had been thoroughly lazy and shown much lack of
pioneering initiative. So he sent all but six of them home again.
This loss of manpower compelled
In fairness to the colonists, it must
be said that they had to face persistent enemies who wantonly destroyed much of
their property and so wrecked their chances of prosperity. These were pirates,
corsairs and privateers who preyed on the islanders. Perhaps worst of all were
the ruthless French and other fishermen of the Grand Banks, who hated the
settlers because of their encroachment upon their waters. Canada was in the
hands of the French. Crops and buildings were set on fire, trees mutilated,
havens blocked and fish-drying sheds broken up.
In 1626 Sir William reported that the
damage done in pillage and destruction amounted to £40,000 and that, in
addition, his colonists had lost a hundred pieces of cannon.
A further blow was the Arctic winter of
1628, though the Cambriol people did not suffer as severely from cold and scurvy
as Lord Baltimore’s settlers further north. But Sir William was still
undaunted. He returned to
A further instance of Sir William’s
far-sightedness is to be found in the medical handbook which he published
in 1630. This was entitled Newlander’s Cure. It contained information and
advice designed for colonists on the preservation of health, with curious
prescriptions for sea-sickness, scurvy and numerous other ailments. This
book makes him a pioneer also in the adaptation of medical knowledge, such as it
was then, to the special needs of emigrants.
The Welsh atmosphere of Cambriol is
clearly indicated in its title, together with other place names like Vaughan’s
Cove, Golden Grove, Cardiff, Pembroke, Cardigan, Carmarthen and Brecon.
These names appear on John Mason’s map of Newfoundland published about 1622.
It is uncertain whether Sir William
returned to the colony after 1630. In view of the persistent depredations of
pirates and the fierce antagonism of the men of the French fishing fleets, it
was becoming more and more difficult to establish Cambriol as a self supporting concern.
The founder’s resources no doubt were becoming severely strained, and he
appears to have had no financial backing from any of his fellow countrymen.
Finally, the gallant pioneer, now approaching sixty years of age, had to abandon
his cherished dream of a prosperous New Wales some time between 1630 and 1637.
In 1637 the Privy Council was
officially informed that the efforts of pioneers like Sir William, Lord
Baltimore and other “men, ingenious and of excellent parts”, had failed. A
new monopoly over the whole island was granted to another Newfoundland
adventurer, Sir David Kirke, though trouble with the fishermen and the pirates
continued throughout the 17th century.
It would be difficult to find a nobler
tribute to Sir William Vaughan than that written by Dr E. Roland Williams:
“Whatever Vaughan’s shortcomings - and they were many - at least the crime
of the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin is not to be laid to his charge. He spared
no pains or sacrifices in his attempt to realise his ambition, and his devotion
to his ideal burns with a clear light through the mists and fumes of those
eccentricities and absurdities which were also part of his character . . .
Before Vaughan had been laid to rest in the little church in the valley of
Llangyndeyrnn August, 1641, the silent, primaeval wilderness was already
erasing, slowly, but reltlessly, all the signs of his strivings and
sacrifices”.
"On the island itself, the Welsh
place-names have long disappeared, and apart from the name “Newfoundland”,
which, some years ago, at any rate, denoted a farm or two in the mid Tywi
Valley, there is no memorial left of this courageous pioneer. He was a man whom
Carmarthenshire should be proud to honour”. (A.G. Prys-Jones, The Story of
Carmarthenshire).
The Welsh Tract Pennsylvannia - Holmes
1681 (Life in Wales A H Dodd 1972).
From the earliest part of the reign of
Elizabeth 1 until the death of the last squire in 1769, home of a cadet branch
of the Vaughan family of Golden Grove. The old house was pulled down in
1818 and a new farm built nearby.
Henry Vaughan and his wife
Catherine Morgan of Midlescwm – he was the younger son of John Vaughan of
Golden Grove settled at Plas Gwyn in 1560 – seven generations of the
family followed him there. Henry was Sheriff of Carmarthen Town in 1574 and
Mayor in 1598. His grandson John Vaughan was High Sheriff of the county in
1643 and a royalist who was fined for his attachment to the King. A later
squire John Vaughan was a supported of the SPCK (Society for the Spread of
Christian Knowledge and well known for his liberality until his death in
1720. 1674 John Vaughan of Plas Gwyn leased Cilgodan estate for 98
years. Later Cilgodan belonged to John Lloyd JP who married Eleanora Vaughan
of Plas Gwyn.
Eugene Vaughan JP (Justice of the
Peace – a magistrate) High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1746 by his
unthriftiness alienated his estate of 5600 acres. He was the last of the family
to live a Plas Gwyn. He left 14 children by his two wives and what was left of
the estate was shared between the co-heiresses of his first wife who sold Plas
Gwyn. The last of his male descendants was Thomas Vaughan who died in 1968.
VAUGHAN
family of Porthaml, parish of Talgarth, Brecknock. X ref Tretower.
This
branch of the Vaughan family was founded by Roger Vaughan, second son of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower - see Vaughan family of Tretower. He was possibly the Roger Vaughan of Tyle-glas who was pardoned on 9 July 1491, and figures again in
Henry VIII’s pardon roll (1509) as Roger ap Roger of Tyle-glas, or Roger Vaughan of Talgarth. He was
granted the offices of steward and receiver of the lordship of Dinas, 17
Jan. 1509, and was dead before 25 Sept. 1514, when those offices were granted to
Sir Griffith ap Rice. His wife was Joan, daughter of Robert Whitney by
Constance, daughter of James, lord Audley. The Vaughans of Tregunter descended
from his second son, Thomas Vaughan. The heir Watkin Vaughan married Joan,
daughter of Ieuan
Gwilym Vaughan of White Peyton. The family
became prominent with his heir William Vaughan who obtained a lease of the
demesne lands of Dinas, 14 Feb. 1529. He was the squire of Porthaml when
Leland visited the place, and in 1536 he welcomed bishop Rowland Lee so
royally that the latter commended him in his correspondence with his master,
Thomas Cromwell.
Their
heiress married the head of the Vaughan family, Sir Charles Vaughan of Dunraven see
Vaughan family of Bredwardine.
Roger
Vaughan, of Talgarth, was the third son of Sir Roger
Vaughan. He married Frances,
base daughter of Thomas Somerset, who married secondly, William Vaughan of Tretower. Roger
Vaughan’s son and heir, also Roger Vaughan married in 1608, Ann, daughter
of Paul Delahaie of Alltyrynys.
Wilmot
Vaughan 1st earl of Lisburne, died in 1813 and was succeeded as 2nd earl of Lisburne by his elder son, also
WilmotVaughan. The 2nd earl died unmarried in 1820 and was succeeded by his half brother John Vaughan (1769-1831), 3rd earl
of Lisburne, colonel in the army, and Member of
Parliament for Cardigan, 1796/1818.
VAUGHAN
family, of Tretower Court, parish of Llanfihangel Cwm-du, Brecknock.
On the A 479/A40 junction between
Brecon and Crickhowell there is a ruined Norman Castle with a circular keep
surrounding a round tower. It was built to defend the valley of the Usk and was
last used in 1403 during the revolt of Owen Glyndwr.
Tretower Court nearby is a welsh
fortified manor house built in the 14c complete with arrow slits and
apertures over the gate through which molten lead , oil etc could be poured on
any attackers. Henry Vaughan the poet lived here.
Sir Roger Vaughan third son of
Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine - see Vaughan family of Bredwardine-by Gwladys,
daughter of Dafydd Gam, was the first of the Vaughans to reside at Tretower. It
is said that the residence was a gift to him from his half brother William
Herbert, earl of Pembroke, to whom the castle and manor of Tretower had
descended by the marriage of his father, Sir William ap Thomas, to the widow of
Sir James Berkeley, heiress of Tretower. Roger Vaughan enlarged and remodelled
the house by the addition of a western range of buildings with a hall. Like all
his kindred, Roger Vaughan is found on the Yorkist side in the divisions of
his time, but he also was granted a pardon by the Coventry Parliament of
1457. The Privy Council ordered him, with Sir William Herbert and
Walter Devereux, to prevent assemblies and the victualling of castles in Wales, 17 Aug. 1460. He was with Edward’s forces at Mortimer’s Cross, 1461,
and it is said that it was he who led Owain Tudor to his execution at
By
23 March 1465 he was a knight, though the investiture is not recorded by Shaw.
He was on commissions of ‘oyer et terminer’ in
BRECONSHIRE.
THE original name of this castle is not
known. Mr. King, in his Munimenta, anglicising its present appellation, calls it
“Three Torr”, implying that it had three towers; which etymology, Dr.
Walkin, rather unaccountably for a writer of his general accuracy, has adopted.
It will sufficiently invalidate this conjecture to observe, that from a view
contained in a survey taken in the reign of
This building is to be ascribed to an
early period of the Norman occupation of the county, when the new settlers were
obliged to trust their security to stone walls. It seems never to have held any
considerable rank as a fortress and is rather to be regarded as a castellated mansion.
An opulent and powerful branch of the
family of the Vauglians of this county, take their name from this place, and
were long its possessors. At present it is the property of the duke of Beaufort.
(This was written in 1830).
Sir Thomas Vaughan of Monmouth /Tretower
VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS was executed in
1483. He was a soldier, court official, ambassador, and chamberlain to the
Prince of Wales. The son of Robert Vaughan of Monmouth and Margaret his wife it
is also alleged that he was the heir of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower. He
received denizenship (being a Welshman) by order of the Privy Council and
at the instance of Lord Somerset and Adam Moleyns, 30 March 1442/3. He was
granted the offices of steward, receiver, and master of the game in
Herefordshire and Ewyas, and steward, constable, porter, and receiver of
Abergavenny, 15 June 1446. He was master of the king’s ordnance for some
ten years from 23 June 1450. At this time he was closely associated with Jasper
Tudor, earl of Pembroke; he was granted a house in
One of the illegitimate children
Thomas, was long a prisoner in France; ‘Sir’ Philip Emlyn wrote a
cywydd on his imprisonment, Edward IV granted £40 from the customs of the
port of Bristol towards his ransom, 28 Sept. 1477.
1483 – Sir Thomas Vaughan of Tretower and
his brothers captured and plundered Brecon Castle. He was granted appointments
in the lordship of Gower during the minority of Anne, heiress of John, duke
of Norfolk, 7 Oct. 1480. He gave Richard III strong support against
the rebellion of the duke of Buckingham in Oct. 1483. Henceforward, he is styled
knight in the records, and he was granted the stewardship of the lordship of
Brecknock, 4 March 1484. He seems to have acted cautiously during the
months preceding the battle of Bosworth and he obtained a general pardon from
Henry VII, 2 April 1486. He built the gateway in the eastern wall of "Tretower Court" and he maintained his family’s traditional patronage of Welsh bards. He was
unstintingly eulogised by Lewis Glyn Cothi, Dafydd Epynt, Ieuan ap Huw Cae Llwyd,
Huw Dafi, and others. His first wife was Cissil, daughter of Morgan ap Jenkin
‘ap Philip’ of Gwent; the second was Jane, lady Ferrers. Lewis Glyn Cothi
addressed an eulogy to his three sons, Roger, Watkin, and Henry, but the family
soon ceased to play a prominent part in Welsh life. The inheritance passed to
Henry Vaughan third son. Christopher Vaughan son of Henry
Vaughan, was sheriff of Brecknock in 1548-9 and his son William
Vaughan held the same office in 1591-2. He died 1613, leaving William Vaughan
who died 1617. In addition to the heir Charles
Vaughan (d. 1636) of Tretower, William
Vaughan’s children included Thomas Vaughan (d. 1658), who m. the heiress of
Tretower
Court was sold about 1783, and the long association of the Vaughan family with
that place was broken.
Henry and Thomas Vaughan of Tretowers.
VAUGHAN, HENRY (1621-95) ; poet, a
member of the Vaughan family of Tretower Court. Born in 1621 at Trenewydd
(Newton), Brecknock, and educated by Matthew Herbert, rector of Llangattock. He
appears to have gone up to
Vaughan’s chief works are: Poems,
1646; Silex Scintillans, 1650; Olor Iscanus, 1651; The Mount of Olives, 1652;
Flores Solitudinis, 1654; and Thalia Rediviva, 1678. The Gregynog Press
printed Poems in 1924 and Vaughan’s translation of Guevara’s “Praise and
happinesse of the Countrie-Life” from Olor Iscanus in 1938.
Member of the Vaughan Family of Tretower,
“The most Welsh of all who have written English poetry, he has given us the
truest values that his race has to contribute to our common heritage,” writes
Dr. F. E. Hutchinson of Henry Vaughan. The values he particularly mentions are
"the Welshman"s imaginative vision, both intense and daring, his
sensitiveness to the beauty of nature in all her moods, and his wistful yearning
for lost youth, for friends departed, and for peace beyond the grave."
Vaughan was ardently royalist and deeply devoted to the Anglican Church; at the
same time he displayed his strong local patriotism - perhaps a little
eccentrically - by styling himself “Silurist,” after the early inhabitants
of south-east Wales, called “Silures” by Tacitus. His first publication,
Poems, with The tenth Satyre of Iuvenal Englished (1646),
bears the usual legend “By Henry Vaughan, Gent.,” but the first edition of
Siler Scintillans (1650) has “By Henry Vaughan, Silurist.” It
is significant that the term “Silurist” introduces these first fruits of his
religious conversion. He had retired from the feverish life of the busy world;
he had deliberately turned his back upon its pleasures and ambitions; even if
forced upon him by circumstances, he accepted his retreat to the country as an
integral part of the converted life, as “appears from his translating about
this time Guevara’s Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life and the life of
St. Paulinus, bishop of Nola. It is no real paradox that Vaughan’s Anglicanism
and his attachment to his native Breconshire are thus intimately related. His
early writings suggest that he might have lost himself in the life of a London
wit had not political circumstances rendered it impossible, and it would seem
that it was through religion that his eyes were opened not only to the mystical
significance of natural beauty but to the calm satisfaction of a life of
usefulness in a rural community. It is quite wrong, as some have done, to regard
Vaughan as a nature worshipper with an incongruous load of High Anglican
doctrine; it was precisely his religious conversion, his appreciation of
Anglican doctrine, which enabled him to be himself, by releasing and giving
substance to the deep intuitions of his mystical and poetic nature.
(“Henry Vaughan: Life and
Interpretation”, by F. E. Hutchinson (Clarendon Press, 1947).
From an article which appeared in a
Journal of the Historical Society of Wales – Henry Vaughan practised as a
Doctor and had a twin brother Thomas. He was born at Trenewydd in Breconshire.
Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695),
Welsh Metaphysical poet and mystic, born in Llansantffraed.
Henry’s twin brother was Thomas
Vaughan who died in 1666 He was an alchemist and poet. He entered Jesus
College, Oxford, at the end of 1638, and graduated in 164?, but there is no
official confirmation of Anthony Wood’s claim that he was elected a Fellow. He
was appointed rector of his native parish of Llansantffraed about 1644. But
he returned to
Vaughans of Gelli-gaer descended
from Lewis
Vaughans of Cathedine descended
from Roger
Vaughans of Merthyr Tydfil descended
from William
Vaughans of Coedkernew descended
from John
The
first landowner to settle there was Howel Fychan described as of Trimsaran,
who came there in the first part of the l6th century. He descended from the
family of Gwempa, and by his wife Jane daughter of Thomas Reed of Carmarthen ap
Thomas Reed Hen, had (with others) a son David Vaughan who succeeded to
Trimsaran, and was an officer of the Lordship of Kidwelly. David died unmarried,
and under the terms of his will proved in 1572, the estate passed to his nephew,
Griffith Vaughan son of William Vaughan of Letheryclren, brother of the testator. Griffith then settled at Trimsaran, and
in 1587 became High Sheriff, but died on 28th July in his shrieval year, without
issue. His wife Margaret Williams of Ystrad ffin, afterwards married three
times, her fourth husband being William Powell of Brecs who lived at Trimsaran,
iure uxoris, and was High Sheriff in 1610. Griffith Vaughan had no children, and
was succeeded by his brother William who married Margaret Morgan of Mudlescwm,
and had a son Henry Vaughan who followed him at Trimsaran. Henry, who was under
18 years of age in 1568, married a daughter of Ystradffin and were both
living in 1597 when the Deputy - Herald Dwnn called at Trimsaran. Their only
child, David Vaughan, described as of Trimsaran and Lletherychen, was High Sheriff in 1636. He too, was succeeded by an only son.
Rowland Vaughan who married Margaret Mansel of
The
mansion was assessed at 8 hearths in 1670, which means it was fairly large.
Towards the end of the l8th century ownership of the estate became a bone of
contention between kinsfolk of the Trimsaran family, and a Chancery suit
resulted between the Mansels, Townsends and Barry St Leger. Finally the masters
in Chancery ordered that the estate be sold at the Ivy Bush, Carmarthen, on 27
October 1791, and the printed Particular describes the estate as 13 lots
amounting to 1781 acres with a yearly rental of £346: the mansion house and offices
‘situate on the top of the Hill, were out of Repair but the materials of the
same are of considerable value’, and describes the valuable timber, the
colliery, farms, game, rights of commons, the right of a pew in the church, and
is lyrical about the view the house commands ‘as far as Tenby, also Carmarthen
Bay, and the adjacent country’.
1625
The mortgage of Pentre Meyrick estate was held by THOMAS VAUGHAN Esq. of Cwmgwili.
Early
17c in the possession of Edward Vaughan a younger son of Charles Vaughan of Cwmgwili. (High Sheriff 1602) who was a son of Walter Vaughan of Pembrey Court, a
descendant of Moreiddig Warwyn.
A
descendant of Edward, another Edward Vaughan was High Sheriff in 1682 and the
estate passed on his death in 1692 to his only daughter and heiress Esther
Vaughan who married Sir Thomas Powell Bart. of Broadway.
1753 Gwynne Vaughan of Jordanston Pembrokeshire Esq purchased Pendine Great house but
by 1807 it had been sold – (Pendine sands are where the early land speed
trials speed trials took place with “Babs”).
In 1705 the Llanelli Vaughan’s estate
was partitioned into four parts among co-heiresses and a quarter share came to
Sir Thomas Stepney of Prendergast (Haverfordwest) but the whole of the estates
coal and timber resources were to be continued as the common property of all the
beneficiaries (M V Symons Coal mining in the Llanelli Area. (Llanelli Borough Council 1979 Pp
41-2).
1570 – great feud between Richard
Vaughan of Whitland and Sir John Perrot (deputy vice admiral of Wales
and illegitimate son of Henry VIII) over piracy – both were involved.
1570’s Pembroke Priory lands
held by Lady Katherine Vaughan and her son Richard; the land then was
passed to Robert Devereux Earl of Essex.
In 1582 John Vaughan of Narberth estimated
the size and quality of the wood at Minwear – he was probably acting as
Steward of the Slebech estate.
1702 Lewis Vaughan of Jordanston allowed
a Baptist Chapel to be built on his land - this was very unusual at the time.
1742 the Vaughan’s of Tre-cwn are
recorded as being very sympathetic to Methodism. They are also recorded as being
very keen supporters of John Wesley in 1763.
Mary Vaughan of Tre-cwn was one of
the early members of the Haverfordwest Wesleyian Methodist chapel founded
in 1771 and her entire family regularly attended service there.
1791 Vaughan of Trecwn estate worth
between £1000 and £2000 per year.
Rice Vaughan who died in 1672 or a little
earlier was a lawyer and author. He was the second son (and, from 1654,
heir) of Henry Vaughan, Gelli-goch, Machynlleth, and his wife Mary, daughter of
Maurice Wynn, Glyn, near Harlech. He went to Shrewsbury school in July 1 1615
and was admitted to Gray’s Inn, 13 Aug. 1638, and was called to the Bar
on 20 June 1648. In the meantime he had been assisting the Parliament side, e.g.
in June 1644 he was appointed a member of the committee for Cardiganshire,
Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthenshire. Having failed to get himself elected Member
of Parliament for Merioneth, 1654, he petitioned the Council of State, alleging
irregularities on the part of the sheriff (Maurice Lewis); the member elected
was John Vaughan, Cefnbodig. The previous year (18 Aug. 1653) Vaughan had
been appointed prothonotary for the counties of Denbigh and Montgomery in the
court of Great Sessions in place of John Edisbury. He server
the commissioners for sequestrations from March 1649 and did some business
on behalf of the Council of state in 1656. He appears to have been a prisoner in
the Tower of London for some time from May 1665 and probably remained there
for at least two years.
Robert Vaughan (1592 ?-1667),
antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library; was only legitimate son
of Howell Vaughan (d. 1639), of Gwengraig, in the township of Garthgynfor and
parish of Dolgelley on the eastern slope of Cader Idris, who traced his ancestry
from Cadwgan, lord of Nannau, son of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn prince of Powys. His
mother was Margaret, daughter of Edward Owen of Hengwrt, parish of Llanelltyd, and
granddaughter of Lewis Owen, baron of the Exchequer of North Wales. Robert
Powell Vaughan, or Robert Vaughan as he came to be known, was born at
Gwengraig, about 1592, judging by the record of his entry into
Robert Vaughan died on Ascension Day
(16 May) 1667. Anthony Wood, on the authority of Thomas Ellis, rector of
Dolgelley, states that he was buried in the church of that parish in 1666. The
burial is not recorded in the parish register, but in a draft will, made 1 May
1665, he left instructions for his burial there. He left four sons and four
daughters:
Howell Vaughan of Vanner, sheriff of
Merioneth, 1671, who married (1)
Jane, daughter of Robert Owen of Ystumcegid, and relict of Hugh Tudor of Egryn,
and (2) Lowry, daughter of Griffith Derwas of Cemes, and widow of Humphrey
Pugh of Aberffrydlan;
Ynyr Vaughan, who was unmarried but who
had issue John ab Ynyr, who emigrated to Pennsylvania;
Hugh Vaughan, who married. Elizabeth,
daughter of Edmund Meyrick of Ucheldre; and
Griffith Vaughan who had Dolmelynllyn and
who married. Catherine, daughter of John ap Robert ap John ap Lewis ap Meredith
of Glynmaelda;
Margaret Vaughan who married (1)
William Price, rector of Dolgelley, and (2) Robert Vaughan, son of Tudor Vaughan
of Caerynwch Jane Vaughan, who married. Robert Owen (d. 1685) of Dolserau;
Elin Vaughan who married
David Ellis, son of Rowland Ellis of Gwanas; and
Ann Vaughan, who married Hugh
Evans of Berth-lwyd in Llanelltyd.
1592 July 14 Haverfordwest
GEORGE OWEN, ALBANE STEPNETH AND JOHN
AP REES TO ROBERT VAGHAN, JOHN GARNONS AND OWEN PHILIPPES OF PENBEDO, GENTLE MEN,
THOMAS AP RICHARD, CLERK, PARSON OF PENBEDO, JEVAN DAVID, CLERK, PARSON OF
BRIDELL, AND GEORGE OWEN, CLERK, PARSON OF WHITECHURCHE.
Whereas we have received letters from
the lords and others of Her Majesty’s most honourable privy council to us and
others directed whereby we are willed and required to inform ourselves of all
places within this county of Pembrooke where in times past there have been
pilgrimages, images or offerings whereunto (as their lordships are informed)
divers sorts of people do use to repair as well in the night season as other
times of the day, and that in great numbers, and that we should cause those
idolatrous and superstitious monuments to be pulled down, broken and quite
defaced, so as there be no monument, token or memory remaining of the same, and
likewise to take order that thereafter there be no such unlawful resort to these
superstitious places, but to appoint some discreet and well affected persons to
have an eye and regard to those that, notwithstanding this inhibition, shall
repair to those places and to see them apprehended and brought before us to be
severally punished for their disobedience and lewd behaviour.
These are therefore by virtue and
authority of the said honourable letters and commission to will and require you,
being gentlemen to us known to be well affected and forward in Her Majesty’s
service and good of the country, forthwith with all convenient speed to repair
to the place called St. Meygans,* where sometimes offerings and supplicatious
pilgrimages have been used, and there to cause to be pulled down and utterly
defaced all relics and monuments of that chapel, not leaving one stone thereof
upon another, and from time to time to cause to be apprehended all such person
and persons of what sex, kind or sort whatsoever that shall presume hereafter,
contrary to the tenor and purport of this said honourable commission, to repair
either by night or day to the said chapel or well in supplicatious manner and
them to bring or send before us or any one of us to be used and dealt withal
according to their deserts. Hereof praying you to have special regard for the
due accomplishment of the premises, as you tender the service of God and Her
Majesty and the benefit and quiet of the country, we take our leave commending
you to God’s tuition.
Endorsed: A letter from divers justices
of peace to suppress the superstition at St. Migan’s Well.
(Bronwydd MS. 3 f.85.
Pistyll Meugan in the parish of
Llanfair Nant-Gwyn. In the early seventeenth century fairs were held there on
Ascension Day, Corpus Christi Day and the Monday after St. Martin’s Day, the
latter being described by George Owen as “a grate faire”.
[Possibly 1668]. Rudbexton.
THE PARISHIONERS OF RUDBEXTON TO
~WILLIAM LUCY~ BISHOP OF ST. DAVIDS~.
[Petition]
May it please your lordship humbly to
be advertised by us the parishioners of Rudbexton whose names are subscribed
that whereas Mr. Lewis Gwyn Vaughan our minister, a man every way qualified
for his office and approved among us for the space of nine years last past, has
been and is still tr[oubled by] reason of a false afadavit made by one Nicholas
Roch of Picton, we, the aforesaid parishioners, with the churchwardens do
unanimously certify your lordship that Mr. Vaughan has neither openly nor
secretly to our knowledge, much less in the face of the congregation, acted
anything contrary to your honourable court and commands as is falsely alleged,
but on the Lord’s day in a very irreverend and imperious manner being served
with a citation, to the disturbance of the congregation and without doubt to his
own great discomposure, very modestly and gravely took notice of the said
service, putting up safely the citation which he was then served with and now
produced before your lordship.
May it therefore please your grace to
receive this our true information and, as you tender the pitiful condition of a
flock without a shepherd, so restore to us our lawful and now much injured
minister and add no more affliction to affliction but of your wonted clemency,
whereby you become always a protector of the innocent, encourage his great pains
and diligence among us and be pleased graciously also to do that right both to
us and our minister as to receive the testimony of truth, repealing any act,
sentence or order that has been granted against him by reason of the aforesaid
false, malicious, rash inadvised oath. This we humbly beg of your lordship with
our prayers for you, assuring your lordship that what we write is the truth and
shall be made good if need require upon our several oaths.
Subscribed: [Eleven signatures and nine
personal marks of people who supported the petition.]
(Church in Wales
MS. SD/MISC/1234.
Lewis Gwyn Vaughan became minister of
Rudbaxton in 1659.
Baptised in 1550 He was the second son of Thomas ap Robert Fychan
of Nyffryn, Llyn, Caerns. He was educated at S. John’s CoIIege, Cambridge (B.A.
1574, M.A. 1577, D.D. 1589). Shortly after 1577, he was appointed chaplain to
John Aylmer, bishop of London, who is said to have been related to him. He
received numerous preferments, including a canonry of St. Pauls (1583) and the
archdeaconry of Middlesex (1588). Elected bishop of
1632 April 20 – From Haverfordwest
Records.
Order of the mayor and common council
and churchwardens that whereas the bells of the parish of St. Maries are greatly
decayed and in consideration of the ill-usage of them in ringing them at the
death of everyone whereby no benefit comes to the parish, any person desiring to
have all the bells rung after the death of a burgess or a burgess’s wife or
child shall pay 8s and after the death of any foreigner or stranger 16s. For one
bell only, 2s. 6d and 5s respectively. The churchwardens shall take order for
payment before the ringing (the third bell for the knoll only excepted) and
account for the same.
Signed: Thomas Canon, mayor, William
Baetman, W(illia)m Meyler, Will(iam] Bouren, Roger Bevans, William Canon, John
Synnett, John Gibbon, William Williams, Nicholas] Bateman, Rice Vaughan,
sheriff, John Davids, John Prin [by mark], James Rowth.
Quakers coming in 1791 to Milford
Haven.
One was a captain Samual Starbuck who
had married Abigail Barney.
They had a son Daniel who had married
Alice Vaughan she died in 1822 after having four children and she is buried
at Milford
in the Meeting house graveyard. Her daughter Alice is also buried there, she
died in 1844.
John Vaughan was an artist and violinist, and a native of Conway. W. D. Leathart says that he used to play the violin to the accompaniment of the harp at some of the meetings of the Gwyneddigion Society of London, c. 1776. It was he who painted the portrait of Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr), which used to hang in the rooms of the Society. He died in 1824 at a great age.
His brother, William Vaughan, described
by Leathart as a native of Conway, was one of the earliest members of the Society. Leathart says that he was
looked upon as “a dandy of the first order, a distinction he was not a little
proud of”, and adds that he was related to Lady Mostyn, mother of the Sir
Thomas Mostyn. who died in 1831. This lady Mostyn was Margaret, daughter of Hugh
Wynn, D.D.; she was heiress of Bodysgallen (near Conway), Plas-mawr
(Conway), Bodidris (Denbighshire), and of the Vaughan house of Corsygedol. William
Vaughan died at Hammersmith, c. 1827, also at a great age.
Sir GRUFFUDD VAUGHAN, (d. 1447), soldier, of Broniarth and Trelydan,
parish of Guilsfield, Mont.
He
was the son of Gruffudd ap Ieuan ap Madoc ap Gwenwys by Maud, daughter of
Griffri ap Rhys Vongam. The Gwewvys clan traced its ancestry from Brochwel
Ysgythrog. Their principal houses lay in the parish of Guilsfield, in the
commote of Strata Marcella. The family, including Gruffudd ap Ieuan, took a
prominent part on the side of Owain Glyn Dwr. Later in life this Gruffudd held a
position under the lords of Stafford at Caus castle, and at that period Lewis Glyn Cothi addressed an ode to him.
According to Lewis Dwnn ‘Sr. Griffith Vaughan of Gwenwys Kt.’ was a
burgess of Welshpool on 7 June 1406. There is a persistent tradition that
Gruffudd Vaughan was in the band of Welshmen who are said to have saved the life
of Henry V when he rushed to rescue his brother, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, at Agincourt, 1415. The belief grew that he, like Dafydd Gam, Roger Vaughan, and others,
were knighted on the field. These knights are not recorded in Shaw’s knights
of England. If Gruffudd Vaughan was of age he could well have been at Agincourt, for two
of his territorial lords, Sir John Grey, son-in-law of Sir Edward de Cherleton
lord of Powys, and Sir Hugh Stafford, lord of Caus, were in that campaign, in
the retinue of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester. The first certain record of him is
in connection with the capture, in Nov. 1417, of Sir John Oldcastle, lord Cobham,
the Lollard, in a glade on Pant-mawr farm in Broniarth, called ‘Cobham’s
Garden.’ A reward of 1,000 marks had been promised for the capture of the
fugitive. News reached
In
the pedigree books Sir Gruffudd is given two wives: Margaret, daughter of Madoc
of Hope in Worthen, and Margaret, daughter of
Cadwaladr,
ancestor of the Lloyds of Maes-mawr;
Reynold,
ancestor of the Wynns of Garth in Guilsfield; and
David
Lloyd, ancestor of the Lloyds of Leighton and Marrington.
Reynold
and David Lloyd received the royal pardon, 21 Dec. 1448.
David
Lloyd seems to have been drowned when his horse shied and plunged into the
sea from a transport. His will, made 12 May 1489, was proved 10 Jan. following.
John Vaughan of Cuckoo, Haverfordwest.
13 September 1911 Haverfordwest
and Milford Haven Telegraph headlines: “Terrible Double Murder. Crippled
Husband’s Awful Revenge. Blows up Sleeping Wife and Child and Himself Received
Mortal Injuries.” John Vaughan of
Cuckoo, Haverfordwest, the crippled husband of a reputedly unfaithful wife, had
written in a notebook: “Jas Lewis done all this, Jas Lewis caused all this.
Hang him, hang him.” On another page of the notebook was an order for
gelignite. The newspaper, after giving an account of the explosion at Cuckoo
where John Harries had poisoned two wives just over one hundred years earlier,
commented: “a fit of mad jealousy on the part of the husband is responsible
for this horrible deed”. John Vaughan, because of his disability, was unable
to remove himself in time after lighting the fuse which ignited the gelignite and
was killed by his own bomb.
The Vaughans of South Pembrokeshire.
Connection between the Vaughans of
Golden Grove and the Campbells of Stackpole. Stackpole Church Registers -
John Mirehouse also left his estate at about the same time to his very good
friend and godson John Campbell –
Baptisms
Vaughn James baptised 20-2-1785 Parents
William and Anne
Vaughn Issac baptised 18-3-1787 Parents
William and Anne
Marriages
Vaughan James married Anne Jones
3-3-1791
In the burials one interesting
coincidence occurs
Campbell Hugh Frederick Vaughan
buried 10-1-1914 age 43 - so the Vaughan name was carried on as a Christian
name in the Campbell’s.
Vaughan George buried 7-1-1893 age
36
Vaughan Thomas buried 22-5-1886 age 26
From these records it looks as if the
1700 Vaughans moved away and later on another family – may be a descendent -
coincidence of the name William - moved back - but where were the 1700’s
William and Anne buried?
The Land Tax Records for 1791 show
Vaughan John
(tenant) Pembroke St Mary’s a plot of
Land
Vaughan Wm (tenant)
Certainly the owner of the Moncton
Bidford land was John Campbell – the owner of the Hodgeston land was Lord
Milford.
A John Vaughan was admitted as a
burgess of Pembroke on 11-3-1754 he was a corvisor.
Another John Vaughan admitted as a
burgess of Pembroke on 14-1-1760 he was a cooper. –Father and Son??? But
normally the son followed the father’s trade.
St Petrox
Baptisms – no
Marriages
Vaughan Mary married Richard Johnes
1646
A Vaughan Issac married Mary Ann Jones
8-5-1841 this marriage would mean that if it is the Issac Vaughan of Stackpole
baptisms he was quite old - at least 54
No Vaughan
burials at St Petrox.
Bosheston
Marriages
Vaughan Margaret married Joseph Bateman
12-11-1808.
No Baptisms or burials.
The St Twinnels register of Baptisms is
very interesting.
It records that Vaughan Edward was
baptised on 9-4-1749 and that his father was William Vaughan – no mother’s
name is mentioned.
Vaughan Mary was baptised on 7-2-1836
parent Sarah Vaughan.
Vaughan
? was baptised in 1839 again parent Sarah Vaughan.
These entries would suggest that all
these children were illegitimate. In fact there is an entry to suggest that the
father of Mary Vaughan was John Jones - he also fathered children by Jane
Jones but was not married to her. He was married at the time and had children.
It would appear that he could have been the estate manager. In the
marriage registers we have
Vaughan James married Mary John 4-10-1777
and
Vaughan James married Martha Davies 10-11-1790
This could be the same man marrying
twice.
And also
A lot later
Vaughan Linda married John Gwyther
13-3-1897
Burials we have –
Vaughan Caroline buried 2-11-1874 age
30
Vaughan John buried 14-9-1900 age 77
Vaughan Mary buried 21-3-1884 age 67
– this might be the daughter of Sarah who might not have been baptised until a more
liberal cleric held the living – many would not baptise children “born in
sin”.
Vaughan Mary buried 24-06-1839 age 0
– this child evidently died soon after birth – was this the un-named child
baptised in 1839.
Vaughan Thomas buried 14-1-1841 age 0
– Was this child baptised? - if not was he buried in consecrated ground –
many cleric’s would not bury anyone in
consecrated ground if
the family could not prove they
had been baptised.
Vaughan Thomas buried 4-3-1838 age 42.
No more records of Vaughans appear in
these registers and they do not appear in other records before the early date of
these entries therefore it would suggest that there is a connection with Golden
Grove on change of ownership.
It was a custom that with the lordships
approval that illegitimate sons would be given the surname of the lord and very
often advantages such as being educated and appointed as steward etc. The
Bishop Vaughan and Lamphey Palace.
Following are details of one of the
residences of Bishop Vaughan:
The
palace of the Bishops of St David’s from the C13 and probably much earlier and
until the mid C16. It has important surviving works which have been associated
with Bishops Richard Carew, Henry de Gower and Edward Vaughan. The palace was
surrendered to the Crown by Bishop William Barlow in 1546, whence it was granted
to Richard Devereux (and the line of the Earls of Essex). In 1683, probably
after damage in the Civil War, the palace was sold to the Owens of Orielton and
in 1821 to Charles Mathias. In the time of Owen tenure the buildings were
neglected or converted to farm use, but preservation commenced under the Mathias
family followed by H.M. Office of Works and Cadw.
Earlv
C13: Fragments remain
of the Old Hall and its undercroft. It is not clear with which bishop this first
surviving work is associated. In the hall, two lancets at north, one blocked.
Hearth at South with a round chimney above. In the undercroft: slit windows with
wide embrasures. Local limestone rubble. Alterations in C16.
Late
C13: (associated with Bishop Carew): the Western Hall (replacing the old
hall which became a kitchen) and its undercroft. The hall has a fireplace at the
centre of the North wall. An attached latrine block at the SE corner.
Undercroft: windows with stepped high sills above what appear to be seats. In
the walls afire the sockets of the floor joists carrying
the original timber floor laid above a longitudinal bridging joist. Local
limestone with dressings in a coarse freestone.
In
later centuries the Western Hall continued as the main hall of the Palace. The
undercroft was vaulted over. Windows converted to Tudor form. An attic storey
and a new latrine block at S were added.
Early C14: (associated
with Bishop Gower): A long narrow hall (or suite of rooms?) and undercroft added
at the E of the Palace. The main stairs are against the N wall, above the
undercroft porch. There are corbels for a pentice roof sheltering the stairs.
The hall was roofed with six trusses, for the wall-posts of which there are
corbels about 1.5 m above floor level. Pairs of trefoil-headed lancet windows
with window seats. The E end of the hall is served by a fireplace with a conical
chimney. A latrine wing is attached at SW. At the top of the walls is an arcaded
parapet, of less developed type than that of Bishop Gower at St David’s. Local
limestone rubble with sandstone dressings.
This
building has a fine undercroft which now appears as a single vault, slightly
pointed at the apex. The springings of several of the eleven cross-ribs survive,
but the ribs have almost completely disappeared and the straight construction
joints in the stonework above rib positions are visible.
A
building at the E of the inner ward containing additional accommodation (the
"red chamber") may be contemporary.
Early C16: (associated
with Bishop Vaughan) Fragments of a chapel with a modern gateway at the E.
Sacristy at N. Fragments of Tudor windows. A fine Perpendicular E window
survives.
Wards: The inner
ward gatehouse, now standing in isolation two storeys, with gatekeeper’s room
above. Altered stairs at N. incorporating a mounting block. Pitched floor in the
gateway. Shallow vaulted floor above. In the NE corner of the upper room there
is a fireplace. Parapet arcading after the Gower style.
There
remain fragments of an extensive outer ward, to the N and W of the main
buildings. Here the most important structure was Bishop Vaughan’s great corn
barn, the lower part of the N wall of which survives. Also fragments of the
outer gatehouse. A later outer precinct wall to the S facing the stream and
fishponds.
A detailed inventory of the goods of Bishop Rawlings lists the
following rooms of the late Bishop “at his manor place of Lantefey, with their
contents, providing an idea of the extent of the building at the Dissolution. As
follows: The Bishop’s own chamber “where he was accustomed to take his rest, and where he died”. The Chamberlain’s chamber. The wardrebe. The
Checkered chamber. The Great Chamber. The gardine chamber. The Gloucester
chamber. The next chamber to the
The
Vaghan’s of South Pembrokeshire 1330’s.
1324 August 20 Pembroke
C Edward II File 85
Extent
made before John de Hamptona, King’s escheator, at Pembroke 20 August 1324
Jurors Walter Maeleufaut, Walter de Castro, John Keiez (Kneghey) John
Melin, Walter Harald; Stephen Perot, Walter Eliot; Wioti de Laureny, John Cradok
(John de Luny) William de Crippynes, Thomas Martin, and John Scorlags.
[as per C Edward II file 84 plus following]
Aymer had in the
tenth knight’s fee, whereof :
Caru, 5 knights fees held by John de Carru, worth yearly, 100m.
Maynerbir, 5 knights’ fees held by John de Barri, worth yearly 100m.
Stakepol, 5 knights’ fees held
by Richard de Stakpol, worth yearly, 100m.
Osbarnestoun, one tenth knights’ fee held by David de la Roche, worth yearly 26s 8d.
Flemisshton, half knights’ fee held by Walter de Castro, worth yearly 100s.
Benegereston one knights’ fee held by John Beneger, worth yearly 26s 8d.
Popetoun, half knights’ fee held by Stephen Perrot, worth yearly 10m.
Kilkemoran, half knights’ fee held by John Scorlagh, worth yearly 10m.
Moristoun,
half knights’ fee held by Walter de castro, worth yearly 10m.
Costyneston
2 knights’ fees held by John Wogan, John Beneger and William Robelyn, worth
yearly 40m.
Esse half
knights’ fee held by Walter Maleufaunt worth yearly 10m.
Jurdanestoun,
half knights’ fee held by John Joce, worth yearly 10m
Mineyerdoun half knights’ fee held by
John de Castro Martini, worth yearly 10m
La Torre, one
tenth knights’ fee held by John Vaghan, worth yearly 26s 8d.
Coytrath
one tenth knights’ fee held by Nicholas de Bonvill, worth yearly 26s 8d
Coytrath one knights’ fee held by
John Chaumpan worth yearly 10m
Coytrath
half knights’ fee held by Andrew Wiseman, worth yearly 5m
Coytrath
one tenth knights’ fee held by John Scorlag worth yearly 13s 4d
Coydrath
one tenth knights’ fee held by David Maleufaunt worth yearly 13s 4d
Westirathvaghan
one tenth knights’ fee held by William Hervi and others , worth yearly 10s
Blanculcoyt
one tenth and one twentieth knights’ fee and 12a land held by John de Castro
Martini worth yearly 20s
Kethlihavelok
one tenth and one twentieth knights fee and 24a land held by John de Castro
Martin worth yearly 20s
Lanteg 5
bovates of land held by John Vaghan, John Ereband, and William, son of Nicholas
de Barri, by knights service worth yearly 13s 4d
Wyston 2 ½ knights’ fee held by Walter Wogan and Walter de Staunton worth yearly £33 6s 8d
Rescrouther (40m)
St Florence (40m)
Londes
(100s) the
advowsons of the churches
Summary
of the part of the above manor “for one part of a moiety of two parts of the
inheritance of Pembroke in demesne for the boy”, inter alia
Total Value £175 16s 41/2d
besides dower (preter dotem)
Summary do. as above “in reversion”
for the boy Ie., Laurence, son and heir of John de Hastings, inter alia, Manor of
St Florence £33 14s; 40 librates of land in Castle Martin, £40 [Sum =] £73 14s
Summary of fees in “demesne” for
the boy inter alia Pembroke in
Sum of Fees £17 ½ + 1/3of one
knight’s fee.
Sum of fees in “reversion” for the
boy inter alia Pembroke in
Sum of Fees, 8
1348 September 24 Pembroke
Writ of certiorari de feodis etc., to John de Shol, escheator in
Edward III Extent of all fees and advowsons of churches in the
county of Pembroke, made at Pembroke on Thursday in the feast of St Michael de
Monte Tumba, 22 Edward III.
Jurors;
John Cantrel, William Adam, William Robelyn, Thomas de Castro, Andrew Wysman,
John Beneger..... John Rou, John Robyn, William Parttrahan, John Hilton and
Henry Beneger.
Laurence de Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, had in the county of
Pembroke 25 1/2 knights fees and three carucates of land, viz;
Carreu 5 fees held by John de Carreu, worth yearly 100m
Maynerbir’ 4 ¼ fees held by Oweyn ap Owen and Avice , his wife
worth yearly 84m
Ogiston half and quarter fee held by William de Rupe, worth yearly
£10
Costenyston, two fees held by Thomas Morgan. William Robelyn and
Ralph Benger’s heirs, worth yearly 40m
Beneregiston,
one tenth fee held by Willian Beneger and Joan his wife, of the right of the
said Joan, worth yearly 26s 8d
Esse half fee held by William Maleufant, worth yearly 10m
Wyston 21/2 fees held by Philip de Stouton and Mathias Morgan
severally and in equal portions, worth yearly £33 6s 8d
Jordanyeston half fee held by John Joce worth yearly 10m
Torre, one tenth fee held by John Vaghan, worth yearly
26s 8d
Coytrath, one tenth fee held by Nicholas de Boleville, worth yearly
26s 8d
Coydrath half fee held by Andrew Wysman, worth yearly 10m
Coydrath one tenth fee held by Walter Scurlages, worth yearly 13s
6d
Coydrath one tenth fee held by William son of Thomas of Carreu, John
Maleufaut, John Perot, worth yearly 13s 6d
Blengilgoyt one tenth and one twentieth fee and 12a of land, held
by Philip de Castro Martini, worth yearly 20s.
Kethlihavelot one tenth and one twentieth fee and 24a of land held by John de
Castro Martini, worth yearly 20s
Nanteg 5
bovates of land held by John Champaygne, John Vaghan, and John Cok, worth
yearly 13s 4d
Westrathvaghan
one tenth fee held by David Elyot and other tenants worth yearly 10s
Glinbogh
2 carucates of land held by William [son of Henry] worth yearly 40s.
The
undermentioned fees were assigned to Mary de Sancto Paulo, countess of Pembroke,
after the death of Aymer de Valencia, late Earl of Pembroke.: Stakepol 5 knights
fees worth yearly 100m
Fflemingyston, half knight’s fee worth yearly 100s
Popetoun half Knights fee worth yearly 10m
Kilermorran half knights fee worth yearly 10m
Menierdon half knights fee worth yearly 10m
Coydrath one knights fee held by John Champaigne, worth yearly 10m
Moriston half knights fee worth yearly 68s 10d
Osberneston one tenth knights fee held by Robert de la Roche,
deceased, whose heir is a minor in the Queen’s wardship worth yearly 26s 8d
Advowsons of Churches: Roscrouther (40m)
Londes (100s)
St Florence. Mary de Sancto Paulo has the advowson (40m)
1353 Feb 8
Patent Roll 27 Edward III Pt 1 M 27d (
Commission
to John de la Bere, Owayn son of Owayn, Walter Malenfant and Eynon Vaghan,
reciting that the king has received a plaint of Thomas son of Richard Wyryot,
containing that, although he holds of John son and heir of Laurence de Hastynges,
late earl of Pembroke, who is within age and in the king’s ward, one
knight’s fee in Orieldoune and Kilpatrikeston co. Pembroke, by service of a
rose yearly and a moiety of a horse for arms in time of war, doing suit once a
year at the gate of the castle of Pembroke and rendering besides to Philip Roger
and John Says yearly 24s 4d of rent sec and the said fee has always hitherto
been held peacefully of the ancestors of the said heir, earls of Pembroke,
nevertheless the said Phillip and John, claiming that the fee is held of them
and not of the heir , distrain him to do service thereof to them to his damage
and the danger of disherison of the heir, wherefore he prays for a remedy; and
appointing them to make inquisition in the county and find the whole truth of
the matter. The keeper of the lands late of the earl, and all the king’s
bailiffs and ministers, in the county, are hereby commanded to be obedient to
them in the premises and to furnish jurors as required.
1376
INQ. 49 Edward III File 246/22
Inquisition,
Jurors: John Pride, Baldewyn de
Brugge, John ap Rees, William Rous, Thomas de Maynes, John Walewayn, Ivanni Vaghan ap Ievan ap Howel, William
de Boarton, Walter de la Halle, Rees ap Wylym, Simon de
Brugge, .....
Lands
of John de Hastynges, late Earl of Pembroke.
Before
his death he had enfeoffed certain persons with the following premises among
others: the castle and
1376 20 November
I.P.M., Edward III, 248, f. 105
Writ of certiorari de feodis, d. 20 November, 49 Edward III. Edward de Brigg. Extent. .. 49
Edward III.
Jurors: Richard de
Houton, Roger Creytol, Henry Brace, Richard de Brompton, John de Mulle, Hugh
Wrembrugge, Walter
Keveryk, Walter Bisshewall’, John Kawerose, Walter Rouse, Henry ap Ieuan, Walter
Heynes.
John de Hastinges late Earl of
Pembroke, deceased, held the undermentioned fees and advowsons of the king in
chief, viz: 5
knight’s fees in Carrewe, held by John de Carrewe, worth £25 yearly; besides reprisals; 4 ½
knight’s fees in Maynorbury, held by Owen ap Owen and Amicia, his wife, worth in gross £22 yearly; a moiety
and Quarter of a knight’s fee in Hoggeston, held by William de Rupe, and worth
in gross 100s yearly; two knight’s fees in Costyneston, which William Robelyn, Thomas Wogan and
Ralph Beneger formerly held, worth in gross £21 yearly; one tenth of a
knight’s fee in Robeston which William de. ....worth in gross 10s yearly; half a
knight’s fee in Esse, which W.. formerly held worth etc. 50s; 2 ½
knight’s fees in Wiston, which Willian de(?) Standon and Mathias Wogan hold and worth, etc. £12 10s; moiety of a
knight’s fee in [Jordany]eston which John Joce formerly held and worth. .... one
tenth of a knight’s fee in Torre, which John Wogan formerly held worth etc. 10s; one tenth
of a knight’s fee in Coytrath which Sir. .... formerly held and worth etc. 10s; Half
a knight’s fee in Coytrath which Andrew Weseman formerly held, worth etc. 50s; one tenth
of a knight’s fee in Coytrath which William Scorlage’ formerly held and
worth 10s: one tenth of a knight’s fee in Coytrath which William, son of
Thomas of Carrew, John Malefaunt, and John Perot formerly held and worth
etc 10s: one tenth and one twentieth part of a knight’s fee in Glangilgoyd
which Philip of Castle Martin formerly held and worth etc. 10s; one tenth
and one twentieth part of a knight’s fee and 24a of land in Kethlyhavelot
which Philip of Castle Martin formerly held and worth etc. 10s; five
bovates of land in Nantege which Philip Champaigne, John Vaghan and John Cok formerly
held and worth etc. 8s; one tenth part of a knight’s fee in Westrathvaghan which David
Elyot and other tenants formerly held and worth etc. 10s; two
carucates of land in Glynyburgh formerly held by William Fitz Henry, worth etc
20s: [5] knight’s fees in Stakepol which Richard Stakepol formerly held and
worth etc £20; half a knight’s fee in fflemis[ton] which Walter de Castro
formerly held and worth etc 60s; half a knight’s fee in Popetoun which
Stephen Perot formerly held and worth etc. 50s. ; half a knight’s fee in
Mynyerdon which [John] of Castle Martin formerly held and worth etc. 50s; half a
knight’s fee in Moristoun which William de Castro formerly held and worth etc. 50s; a
knight’s fee in Coytrath which John Champaigne formerly held and worth etc.
....; moiety of a knight’s fee in Mauh, ,,,in Walles which Sir Morgan holds
and worth etc 20s; one knight’s fee in Lamenir [in Walles] formerly held by Adam ap
Ivor, worth etc. 100s; one fourth part of a knight’s
fee in Lancadok and Lamanoz(?) in
Advowsons Kylgarren (£4 beyond reprisals) , Maynerde (10marks, etc),
Pencrath(?) (60s).
Lanyhauel
(£4, etc), Rescogthurg (40m? ) Londes (100s etc) .....(£40. etc), St de
Whitchurch, St Thomas de Geveren(?).
The
early part of the 14th century was a very turbulent time in the history of Britain, the
influences of events of the day affected even the most distant parts of the
country.
Walter
Seys founder of the one of the Vaughan families; that of the Welsh Marches and
Pembrokeshire, lived, founded the family fortunes and had an influential part in
the events of the time.
After
the defeat of the Earl of Lancaster’s rebellion in 1322, Edward II who had
homosexual tendencies, became totally dominated by the le Dispensers, father and
son, Sir Hugh the younger took advantage of his position to
extend his lands into a territorial lordship covering most of South
Wales. This was
regarded as a threat by those holding land in the
On
April 28, 1325,[1] Edward II granted custody of all the estates belonging to
Laurence, the son and heir of John de Hastyngs, until the said Laurence should come
of age, to Hugh le Despenser the younger.
Sir
Hugh the elder, had been made Earl of Winchester. He caused
“the Queen to be hated and put on livery”[2]. Queen Isabella seeing the warning
signs, and believing that her position and possibly her life were threatened,
agreed, when it was proposed by the papal nuncios, that she would
undertake a peace mission, to reconcile her husband and her brother and obtain a settlement of the vexing question of
who was the overall ruler of Gascony. On 9 March 1325 she, with most of her
household, sailed for
The
Dispensers were against Edward travelling to
During
the time they were in
Supported
by the count of Hainault, in return for the marriage of his daughter Philippa to
the young Edward, the Queen, her son, the earl of Kent, Roger Mortimer, and the
brother of the count of Hainault with a small supporting force, invaded England landing
at Orwell in Suffolk (although Brut Y Tywysogyon says they landed at St
Edmondsbury) on September 24 1326 and headed for London. Many of the Marcher
lordships supported Edward III)
Edward
II was then in the west country and the chronicle records that he and Sir Hugh the younger fled
across the Severn from Bristol towards Morgannwy. Sir Hugh the elder who commanded
at Bristol was forced by the burgesses to yield the town without resistance, was
seized, “tried” sentenced to be “drawn for treason, hanged for robbery,
beheaded for misdeeds against the Church”.[3]
Sir
Hugh the younger with Simon Reding, a clerk, and king Edward II headed into
Wales, trying to escape to Lundy Island, from where they might have been
able to get a boat to Ireland but storms in the Bristol Channel prevented this.
Instead they were forced to head further west, with the hope of gaining support
from some of Hugh the Despenser the younger’s estates. On 16 November
they were captured at Neath Abbey. The next day Simon Reding was drawn and
hanged and Hugh the younger was taken to Hereford were on 24 November he was
“tried” and a similar sentence to his father’s carried out forthwith. It
is interesting that he was taken to Hereford were Walter de Seys had
influence.
Edward
II was taken to Kenilworth and was forced to abdicate in January 1327. His
son was proclaimed King as Edward III. At that time he was fifteen years
old.
The
deposed Edward II was removed from Kenilworth, in April 1327, to Berkeley
Castle where at least two attempts were made to rescue him. According to some accounts, he was
murdered on 21 September 1327 by being pierced in the rectum with a
white hot lance, it has been suggested on the orders of Roger Mortimer[4]
On
the death of Hugh le Despenser the younger, control of the estates of Laurence
de Hastynges (who was still a minor) passed to Roger de Mortuo Mari (Roger
Mortimer).
Edward
III as a minor was under the influence of his mother Queen Isabella and her
lover Roger Mortimer till 1330. Then becoming eighteen, in October
1330 with the encouragement and support of many of the nobility, he took over
the reins, of government. His mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer
were arrested, Mortimer had been caught in the old king’s bedroom at night, he
was executed by being drawn and quartered and his heir dispossessed, Isabella
was confined to Castle Rising.
Among
those whose support in Wales was crucial to the king was that of Walter de Seys.
He held many important posts in Wales and was involved in the taking
of inventories of the estates which had been held by Roger de Mortuo Mari.
Administrations
of the estates of the Laurence de Hastynges were taken back into the King’s hands
and he appointed, in 1331, Richard Symond as Steward of the County of Pembroke and keeper of
the castles, late of Roger de Mortuo Mari, the king’s enemy and rebel.
NB. Laurence de
Hastings succeeded his father John, half brother of Sir Hugh Hastings, as fourth
Lord Hastings and Bergavenny in 1325. As a young man he served under Edward III
in Flanders, and in 1339 was created Earl of Pembroke as representative of his
great Uncle Aymer de Valence. The arms of Aymer de Valence, can be see in enamel
on his effigy in Westminster Abbey. In 1340 Laurence de Hastings accompanied the
King on his expedition into Scotland, and later took a prominent part in
Lancaster’s campaigns of 1345 in Aquitaine and
Gascony, being present at Bergerac - which he garrisoned—at Auberoche and
Aiguillon. He was at the siege of Calais and died in 1348. Arms Quarterly,
Hastings and Valence. There is a stone effigy of him at Abergavenny moreover there
is a small figure, of him, on the brass of Sir Hugh de Hastings at Elsing
Church Norfolk[5]
1325
April 28 Winchester
Close Roll, 18 Edward II, m 6 (Cal, p 288 )
Order
to John de Hampton, escheator in Hereford (etc) and the adjoining marches of
Wales, to deliver to Hugh le Despenser, the younger, certain lands and
tenements, to wit the castle and the town of Pembroke, the barn of Kyngeswode,
the commote of Coytrath, the castle and town of Tenby, the manor of Castle Martin (except ú40,of land and rent in the same held by Mary, late
the wife of Aymer de Valence, in dower), the manor of Tregeyr, the rent and
foreign profits of the whole county of Pembroke, and the commote of Oysterlof which premises are assigned to Lawrence, son and heir of John de
Hastyngs, a minor, from 12 February last, when the King granted the custody of
the said Lawrence’s property, until he came of age to the aforesaid Hugh.
1326 Oct 29 Caerphilly
Patent Roll, 20 Edward II, m 7 (Cal p 334)
Appointment
of Rees ap Griffith to raise all the forces of the county and bring them to the
king; with power to arrest the disobedient ...
The
king had ordered a survey to be carried out on all the lands administered by
Roger de Morti Maur.
(These
records for this area have survived and are very detailed. It is difficult to
decide what order to look at the records from this time but I felt that the
overall view - the stewards of the estates accounts would be a good place to
start).
m 11. View of the Account of Walter
Seis, the Treasurer of Pembroke from Michaelmas (29 Sept) 1326 to 24 May 1327,
for 33 weeks and four days.
Castlemartin
received
of David Phelip, the reeve there, by one tally. £ 30
Farm of the mills of Pembroke for
this time, £ 20 11s 4 3/4d
the prise of the beer there . 77s 2d.
Sum £ 34 8s 6 3/4d
Costyniston
and Wiston which are in ward
received of William Huloc, reeve
of Costiniston, by one tally £ 6 5s 4d
received of Thomas Cogan, reeve
of Wyston by one tally. £ 7
Sum £ 13 5s 4d
Tenby
received of Robert, the baker, the farm of the mill of
Waterwyche
by one tally. 13s 4d
The County (Com’) for the
ward of the castle of Pembroke;
from
the ward of :
Costyniston 4s.,
South Cyroni, 2s 6d
Gonedon, 2s.,
Popetoun 2s.,
Corston 20s.
Sum 30s 6d.
And
for the residue Richard de Collyngton is to answer, to wit:
Corston 20s;
Maynerbir 8s
Kylecop 2s;
Thouryston . 9s 6d
Perquisites of Court 5s 4d
for
the time of this view, and no more, because Richard de Collyngton is to answer
for the rest, and he has the Rolls of the court with Him.
Total Receipts £ 70 3s 0 3/4d
Expenses
of Walter Seys going to Carmarthen to Sir William de la Southe, by order of
the said William,
and
staying there for two days, 2s 6d.;
Vaughans of St Issels (now Saunderfoot) Pembrokeshire.
Extract from Old Pembrokeshire families in
the Ancient County Palatine of Pembroke from in part the Floyd MSS by
Henry Owen DCL Oxon FSA (High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire)1902.
“THERE is preserved the record of a
long and interesting suit relating to lands in St. Ussyls (St. Issel’s) which
contains much local family history. Stephen Baret was charged with the sum of 50s, yearly from
1359 as farm rent for the custody of a messuage and lands at St. Issel’s
granted to him on the death of David VAUGHAN, whose heir was
under age, as was also (John) the heir of Laurence Hasting, Earl of Pembroke.
We have scattered notices of the Barets,
who seem to have been originally burgesses of Carmarthen, and held of Guy de
Brian in the lordship of Laugharne. Lewys Dwnn gives three pedigrees of
branches of the family at Pendine (afterwards at Tenby), Philbeach and Gelliswick, Adam Baret,
John the son of John Baret , and Henry the son of Thomas Baret, have been
mentioned in the de la Roche paper. In 1348 David Baret was chancellor of St.
David’s; in 1376 Adam Baret was a juror at Haverford, in 1378 John Baret at
Pembroke, and in 1430 David Baret at Haverford, but what kin any of them were to our
Stephen there is nothing to show.
The Vaughans had been settled in the
district for some years. Robert VAUGHAN was on a
jury at Pembroke in 1302, when all the jurors were persons of good standing. In
1324 and 1348 a John VAUGHAN held
one-tenth of a fee at La Torre (Tarr), and in coparcency with John Emebald and
William son of Nicholas de Barri, five bovates of land at Lanteg (Lanteague).
John had a son David who died about 1350, holding the manor of St. Issel’s for
half a knight’s fee and a rent of 16s. 8d; his heir was Walter, who held St. Issel’s and died
in 1361 leaving a daughter, Nesta, who died aged four years in 1364, when the
property passed to David Portan or Portcan, who was the son of Isabella
the daughter of David VAUGHAN.
Stephen Baret sought to be released
from the payment charged, and obtained a writ, dated lst October 1378, directing
the barons of the Exchequer to do right under the circumstances set forth by an
inquisition taken at Hereford (Haverford ) on the 1st September then last, which
shows the descent of the lands to David Portan, and further states that the
lands for which Baret had been charged had been held by John the son of Andrew
Wiseman since the death of Nesta.
The Wisemans were probably brought to
the county from Scotland by Aymer de Valence. They gave their name to
Wiseman’s Bridge over the stream which divides St. Issel’s from Amroth.
This Andrew held at the death of Earl Aymer half a knight’s fee at Coytrath (Coedrath);
his son John was born about 1336. There are a few later notices of the family ;
in 1383 John Wiseman (who in 1378 was one of the sureties given by John Harold
for the custody of Stephen Perrot), and in 1392 Thomas Wiseman, were jurors at
Pembroke; in 1400 John Wiseman was one of the commissioners appointed to enquire
into the King’s debts at Pembroke…………
RECOGNISANCES FOR KEEPING THE PEACE TAKEN IN THE GREAT SESSIONS AT
NEWPORT IN 1476.
After the hearing of pleas by the
justices was over, the Great Sessions were continued for another three days,
from Monday, 3 June, until Wednesday, 5 June, for the purpose, of taking
recognisances from seventy-two persons. This was done as a security that they
would appear before Henry, duke of Buckingham or his council in Newport Castle,
at the shire court to be held after Easter, 1477, and would meanwhile be of good
conduct. All persons put under recognisances were obliged to find mainpernors
who would answer in case of their own default, and these bonds were to be
forfeit if a breach of the duke’s peace, or injury to any of his tenants and
residents in the lordship, was committed. Most of the bonds were for 100
shillings, but the more important tenants gave recognisances for much greater
sums; the sheriff of Wentloog, Thomas Vaughan, (Sir Thomas Vaughan of Tretower who died c.1493) and Sir John Morgan of Tredegar for 500 marks each, Lewis Vaughan for
200 marks, William Kemeys for £100, and Hugh Flemming, William David Kemeys and
Sir John Morgan’s heir, Morgan John, for 100 marks each. Bonds for £40 were
given by Morgan ap Howell Kemeys and Thomas Llywelyn Vaughan; twelve
persons were put under bonds for £10 each, and the remaining fifty-one were all
at 100 shillings. A few were men who had been acquitted (or convicted) during
the sessions, but most of them were persons who had not been charged with any
crime. In three of these bonds, the obligation to keep the peace was not limited
to the lordship of Newport. The sheriff of Wentloog, Thomas Vaughan, Thomas Cook and
Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Philip ap Iorwerth (whose bonds were for 100 shillings
each), undertook that they would be of good conduct towards all the duke’s
tenants and residents in the Welsh Marches.
[One of the conditions contained in the
“Indenture for the Marches" made on 1 March, 1490 between Henry VII and
his uncle, Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford, as marcher lord of Pembroke, Glamorgan,
Newport, Abergavenny, Caldicot and Magor, was that before Whitsun the duke
should cause his officers in his marcher lord ships “to put al maner of men . . . undre sufficient suertie of
ther good abering and ther appering in the saide courte to answer the lord and
partye”].
Marginal notes made on the assize roll
in a later hand record that seven persons appeared and that no charge was
brought against them. Most of these seven stood to forfeit considerable sums had
they failed to appear. The appearance of sheriff of Wentloog, Thomas Vaughan, is
noted, along with that of Sir John Morgan, Lewis Vaughan, Hugh Fleming, Morgan
John, Thomas Llywelyn Vaughan, and the convicted usurer of Rumney, John ap David
Vaughan.
The Great Sessions afforded also an
opportunity for persons to seek protection against their enemies. Gwenllian
Flouen sought security of the peace on Monday, 3 June, against Philip David Luya,
swearing on oath that his threats had put her in fear of life and limb. He was
committed to jail, and later released on bail, giving a bond for £20, which was
to be forfeit if he did Gwenllian bodily harm, or failed to appear before the
justices at the next Great Sessions. Before the sessions were dissolved, Philip
David Luya was also put under a recognisance for £10, in the usual form.
[a mark was at this time worth
13shillings and eight pence].
NEWPORT ASSIZE ROLL, Iq.76 107 NEUPORT.
Thomas Vaghan, armiger, vicecomes
de Wenllouk, predicto die Lune venit hic in curiam in propria persona sua et
assumpsit pro se ipso sub pena quingentarum marcarum quod ipse die Jovis in
septimana Pasche proximo future personaliter comparebit in castro de Neuport
coram duce Bukyngham vel consilio suo et interim erit de bono gestu erga omnes
tenentes et residentes infra dominia de Neuport, Wenllouk et Maghan et membra
eorundem ac omnes alios tenentes et residentes infra dominia predicti ducis in
marchia Wallie. Et Willelmus Kemmeys, Hugo Flemmyng, Willelmus David Kemmys,
Morganus John et Morganus ap Howell Kemmys assumpserunt et quilibet eorum per se
assumpsit pro predicto Thoma Vaghan quod ipse comparebit in castro predicto,
predicto die Jovis et interim erit de bono gestu in forma predicta, videlicet
predictus Willelmus Kemmeys sub pena centum librarum et quilibet predictorum
Hugonis, Willelmi David Kemmeys et Morgani John sub pena centum marcarum et
predictus Morganus ap Howell Kemmys sub pena quinquaginta marcarum. Quam quidem
summam quingentarum librarum predictus Thomas Vaghan et predictas alia summas in
forma predicta specificatas, quilibet predictorum Willelmi Kemmeys, Hugonis,
Willelmi David Kemmys, Morgani John et Morgani Howell Kemmys recognoverunt de
terris et catallis suis fieri et ad opus predicti ducis levari si contingerit
predictum Thomam ad predictum diem Jovis defaltum facere vel interim aliquod
quod in lesionem pacis dicti ducis vel disturbacionem tenencium sive residencium
dominiorum et membrorum predictorum facere et inde debito modo convinci etc.
Marginal note: Ad quem diem idem Thomas
Vaghan, armiger, persona liter comparuit et nihil contra ipsum dictum etc.
NEUPORT
(Similar recognisance for 500 marks
given by Sir John Morgan, kt., and undertaking to appear in person before the
duke or his council in Newport Castle on the eve of Palm Sunday, 1477, and
meanwhile to be of good conduct towards all tenants and residents within the
duke’s lordships. Mainpernors (each for 100 marks): William Vaghan ap Guilim
Philip, William Vaghan ap Guilim ap Rosser, William David Vaghan, Ris ap
David Gogh and Thomas ap Jankyn.
Marginal note: Ad quem diem dictus
Johannes Morgan, miles, hic comparuit etc.
NEUPORT
Similar recognisance for 200 marks
given by Lewis Vaghan and undertaking to appear etc. Mainpernors : Morgan
ap David ap Guilim ap Meuric (for £40), Morgan John, Hugh Flemmyng, William
David Kemmys and Philip David Lia (for £20 each), and Ris David Gogh, for 20
marks.
Marginal note: Ad quem diem dictus
Lodwicus Vaghan hic comparuit etc.
No. 4. ASSIZE ROLL OF THE GREAT
SESSIONS IN THE LORDSHIP OF
BRECON IN 1503 (Lord
Stafford’s MSS. No. 100)
BRECHONIA [M.I & dorse]
Letters patent (not dated) of Edward,
duke of Buckingham, earl Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton and lord of Brecon,
appointing his brother Henry Stafford, John Kyngesmylle, king’s serjeant at law,
John Yakesley, serjeant at law, Robert Turbrevile, John Scotte, Andre Wyndesore,
William Denys, Richard Littylton, Roger Bodenham Walter
Vaghan, Thomas Slade, Walter Rowdon, William Huntele John Guntour, Humphrey Bannaster and
John Russell as justices in eyre in the lordship of Brecon. Two of the justices
were to be a quorm in which one of the following was to be included: John Kyngesmyll John
Yakesley, John Scot, Andrew Wyndesore, William Denys, Richard Littilton, Roger
Bodenham, Walter Rowdon and William Hunteley.
No. 6. ORDINANCES FOR THE
LORDSHIPS OF BRECON AND HAY MADE BY THE KING’S COUNCIL IN 1518 st. ch.
2/35/21.
An ordre and direction taken by the
mooste reverende father in God, Thomas, lorde Legate latere and cardinall, archebisshopp of
York, legate of the See Apostolique, primate of England and chaunceler, the right mighty and
high prince the duc of Norfolk, the right reverende father, Thomas, bisshopp of
Duresme, the erle of Surrey, the Lorde Burgeenny, Sir Thomas Lovell, knight, and
other of the kinge’s mooste honorable counsaill, assembled the 26th day of Novembre
in the 10th yere of the reigne of our souveraigne lorde king Henry the VIIIth,
in the Sterred Chambre at Westminster , for a finall and perpetuall
determinacion and appaising of all and almaner variaunces, controversies and debates heretofor mooved
and nowe depending bifor the said lordes bitwene the duc of Buckingham and his
tenauntes of his severall lordships of Brecknock and Haye.
First, that all the said duke’s
tenauntes shall sufre the said duc and his oficers to levye and distraigne for
the arrerages of his rentes and services, dettes and other his lawfull forfaitours, casueltes and tallages growen
or herafter to be due by the lawe and custume of his said lord ships and
landes there, withoute resistens with force, rescous or any other
unlawfull impediment or lett against the lawe.
Alsoo, that all the said inhabitantes,
tenauntes and resiauntes that nowe be or herafter shalbe of the said lordships,
that be wonte and have used to appier at sessions at Brecknock and Hay, shall
peseablye appier at the sessions to be holden there bifor the said duke’s
commissioners and soo from sessions to sessions, withoute having or wering of
ony harnes or wepon there, and in leke wyse they shall apper byfore the seyd duke’s steward or
lieutenaunt within the seid lordshipps at the seid duke’s courtes.
Alsoo, that all the said inhabitauntes,
resiauntes and tenauntes that nowe be or herafter shallbe, shall suffre the said
comissioners, stewardes and lieutenauntes of the said duc and his heyres to kepe
the said sessions and courtes, and procede in the same ayenst all murderers,
ravisshers of women and all other felons, riottours and offendors against the
lawe, withoute interupcion or lett in ony wise, and alsoo shall peseably suffre
the said duke’s oficers to make and levie execucion of any thing determyned
and adiudged in the said sessions and courtes.
Alsoo, for an indifferent and finall
determinacion and apoinctement of sessions in his said lordships herafter to be
kept, it is ordred and decreed by the said mooste reverende father and
th"other, for asmuche as the said tenauntes, inhabitauntes and resiauntes
of the said lordship of Brecknoke have founde sufcient suerties which stande
bounden to the said duc by recognisaunce in the somme of 2000 marckes, and the
said tenauntes and inhabitauntes of the said duke’s lordship of the Haye have
in like maner founde suffcient suerties which stande bounden to the said duc by
recognisaunce in the somme of £140, as by the said recognisaunces in the said
duke’s chaunceryes of the said lordships of Brecnoke and Haye more playnly
doth apier, that the said duc shall holde no more sessions at Brecknock, nother
at Hay, except oonly the sessions now adiourned unto the last day of February
next coming, to be at that day dissolved untill the first day of Octobre which
shalbe in the yere of our lorde God a thousande, fyve hondrith and 21, and that
from thensforth the said duc at his pleasure shall holde sessions at and in
every of the said lordships twyse in the yere for the due minustracion of
justice and punisshement of offendours. Soo that the same duc apoinct his said
sessions soo to <be> kept bitwene the beguinyng of Octobre and the middle
of Marche, and at none other tyme of the yere to the molesting or inquietacion
of his said tenauntes, nother for inordinate vexacion of the same his tenauntes,
to th"entent to coarce theim to redeme his said sessions. And for the
whiche, it is ordred and decreed that the said duc soo setting and keping his
sessions in eyr yerely twize in the yere shall not continue ony of theim over
and above the space of 8 daies. And, if the said duc wilbe content to forbere
his said sessions in eyr from 3 yere to 3 yere, that then the said tenauntes,
resiauntes and inhabitauntes of all and every the said lordships where the said
duc may kepe sessions in eyr may redeme the same sessions, if they will make due
and humble pursuyte to the said duc and his oficers soo to doo, if the said duc
therunto wull aggre and the said hoole tenauntes, or the more partie of them.
Alsoo, if ony parson be or shalbe
attached for suspect of murdre or felony and not taken with the meanour or dede,
that than suche parsauns to be letten to bayle upon sufficient suerties to be
founden t"appier at the sessions or other place within the said lordship
where suche parsauns have used t"appier and there to be delyverd and ordred
acording to the lawe and reasonable custume there. And that the said bondes, be
it by recognisaunce or otherwise, shalbe taken of recorde in the said
duke"s chaunceryes there and in noon other place.
And if ony parson or parsons be suertie
for ony felon happier in the sessions or in the courte there at a certaign day,
if the said suerties bring the said felons to warde bifor the day that they ar
bounden to bring the said prisouner in, that then suche suerties to be
discharged of the said bondes. And, if ony parson be attached for suertie of
peace, that the same parsauns, upon sufficient suertie founde aftre the lawe and
custume there for keping of the peace, be sett at libertie.
And if ony baretours or ony seditious
or misordred parsans for breking of the peace, confederacies or other actes
against the lawe, be attached, if they fynde sufficient suertie of their good
abearing, be sett at libertie, orels to remayne in warde.
Alsoo, if the said duke’s offcers doo
surmyse any forfaict upon any parson or parsons for the breking of the peace or
of good abearing or of any other forfaict upon the said surmise, that the said
officers shall make noo distrayne of goodes nor catalles for levyng of the said
forfaict upon the said surmise, nor the bodye of the parson or parsons that is
surmitted to offende be comitted to prison, if he or they can fynde any
sufficient mainprise, untill a traill of the said surmise be had by 12 men,
confession of the partie, defaute of the partie or for lacke of aunswer of the
partie. And, in case the said partie put hym to the triall of 12 men, that then
the stuarde or lieutenaunte there shall, upon every of their first othes, make
an indifferent panell and that then the partie upon whome suche for faicture
is presented shall have therunto noo chalenge.
Wherel also divers chalenges hath
heretofor been used within the said lordships for the delaye of the trewe triall
of the said offendours, wherof oon a principall chalenge is that oon of the
jurye is of kynne to the partie, plaintif
or def (endant) . An other principall chalerige called veterate,
otherwise called “olde rancorous malice” ; that the juror, or oon of his
auncestors within the fourth degre of mariage, hath murdred or slayne oon of the
kynne of the plaintif or defendant within the 4th degre of mariage to ony of
theim. It is ordred and decreed by the said mooste reverende father and other of
the said mooste honorable counsaill that the said chalenges shall not be
alowable onles the partie soo chalenged be by trewe lyne within the fourth degre
of consanguinite to ony of the said parties. And, as to the said chalenge called
veterate, it is ordred that the said chalenge shall not be allowable onles the
partie soo chalenged have murdred the kynnesmen of the partie so chalenging
within the 4th degre of consanguinyte, as is aforsaid, within 10 yeres next and
immediatly bifor the said chalenge. It is alsoo ordred that other causes of
chalenge that may induce corupt favour shalbe good cause of chalenge, and noon
other chalendge except oon of thise 3 aforsaid chalenges shalbe alowable.
It is alsoo by the said mooste
reverende father and th"other ordered and decreed that, for the said sommes
of two thousande marckes to be paied by the said tenauntes, inhabitauntes and
resiauntes of Brecknok aforsaid to the said duc, and for the somme of £140 to
be paied by the said tenauntes, inhabitauntes and resiauntes of the said
lordship of Haye, that the same duc shall, by his severall pardons ensealed with
his grete seale of his chauncery within every of the said lordships, remitte,
<discharge> and pardonne all and every of the said tenauntes,
inhabitauntes and resiauntes of almaner of murdres, rapes, felonyes, riots,
routes, trespases and all and singuler offences, contemptes and necligences,
whatsooever they be, in misdoing, not doing or otherwise doon or committed by
ony of theim bifor the first day of Octobre last past, murdre wherof the said
tenauntes, inhabitauntes or resiauntes or ony of theim bifor the first day of
Octobre last past were <convicted> or attaincted oonly except. And alsoo,
of almaner of dettes by recognisaunce for apparance for the peace, good abearing,
fynes, issues, amerciamentes and other forfaictours whatsoever they be, being
due to the said duc by ony of the said tenauntes, inhabitauntes and resiauntes
bifor the first day of Octobre aforsaid, except suche recognisaunce as be made
to the said duc for his rentes, fermes or ony other due dett to the said duc
with certaigne clauses of proviso to be conteigned within the said pardonne ;
that is to say, that the said pardonne shallnot extende to Llywelyn ap Morgan ap
David Gamme, late of Brecnok aforsaid, gent., William Vaghan of Talgarth in
the Marches of Wales, gent., Thomas Vaghan of the same, gent., and Jenkyn
Hawarde, late porter of the castell of Brecknock aforesaid, gent., nor to ony of
their suerties, nother to ony dettes by recognisaunce or obligacion wheryn ony
of the said tenauntes, inhabitauntes and resiauntes stande bounden joinctlye and
severally as suerties for the said Llywelyn, William, Thomas and Jenckyn or ony
of theim, and that the said par- donne extende not to ony of the said duke’s
offcers that nowe be, or heretofor hath been, for ony misdemeanour or
misbehavour in excercising, touching or concerning their said offces.
Alsoo, it is decreed by the said mooste
reverende father and th"other that the said tenauntes, inhabitauntes and
resiauntes that nowe be or herafter shalbe, shall fulfill, observe, kepe and
performe all and singuler articles comprised in this present decre which by
theim or ony of theim are to be observed, kept and performed, upon payn of
forfaictur unto our souveraign lorde the king of 1000 marckes for every tyme
that they theryn shall offende.
Also, it is decreed and ordred by the
said mooste reverende father and th"other that if at ony tyme herafter ony
ambiguyte or doubt shall fortune to arise upon the interpretacion of ony article
comprised or conteigned in this present ordre and decre, that than the same
doubt and ambiguyte to be opened, interpreted and declared by the said mooste
reverende father, orels by the chaunceler of Englonde for the tyme being. And
that aswell the said duc as the said tenauntes, inhabitauntesand resiauntes
shall stande to the said interpretacion and declaracion soo by the said mooste
reverende father, or by the said chaunceler for the tyme being, to be made,
interpreted or declared.
It is alsoo decreed by the said mooste
reverende father that Morgan ap John ap Hoell ap Guilam and Thomas ap John
ap Hoell ap Guilam shall make restitucion of 26 beestes, price, £8 13s. 4d.,
whiche were from Jenkyn ap Thomas ap Morgan wrongfully taken bifor the said
first day of Octobre. Alsoo, that Thomas ap Hoell ap Morgan make lyke restitution to Ieuan ap Rice ap
Owen of 4 oxen, price 26s. 8d., whiche alsoo were taken from hym as is aforsaid.
Alsoo, that John ap Llywelyn ap Morgan ap David ap Hoell make lyke retitucion to
Hangharyed ap Morgan of 4 oxen, price 26s. 8d., which were from her lykewise
taken. Also, that Thomas ap John ap Guilam Vaghan make like restitucion to
Morgan ap Thomas and Ieuan Gwynne ap Morgan of 67shepe, price £3 which were
from theim in lyke maner taken.
And, to th"entent that this
present ordre and decre taken bitwene the said duc and his said tenauntes, by
their full and hoolle consent, shalbe from henseforth perpetually inviolably
observed on every behalve, it is ordred and decreed that the same decre shall
not all only remayn in the bokes of the Sterred Chambre sufficiently
regestred for a perpetuall memorye, but alsoo that the same shalbe entred of
recorde in the kinge’s rolles of his chancerye, oute of the whiche it is
ordred and decreed that every of
the said parties to whome aperteynith shall sue and have exemplificacions of the
same acte, ordre and decree undre the kinge’s grete seale, to reyayn in their
severall custodies, to th"entent that noon of theim all pretende ony
ignorance in the same.
~End of the
roll.~
1502 –3 Lewis Vaughan who had
been beadle of Newport failed to give in the accounts three times was
imprisoned in Newport castle – He escaped.
(Sir) Roger Vaughan- founder of Vaughan of Tretower
family....................... 3
(Sir} Thomas Vaughan....... 24
, John Poyer..... 14
, Lewis Vaughan 44
, Malet, third daughter of the 2nd earl of
Rocheste...... 10
, Robert Lloyd, 12
, Roger Vaughan. 5
, W’illiam Herbert, earl of Pembroke.... 3
, William Vaughan, described by Leathart as a native of
Conway....... 32
. Cromwell at Golden Grove?..................... 19
. James Vaughan was the heir... 7
. John Vaughan was his heir........... 8
. Robert Vaughan 11
. Sir John Wogan of Wiston, Pembs..................... 25
....Vaghan......... 38
’Tretower Court 25
’William Herbert, earl of Huntingdan.... 7
1674 John Vaughan of Plas Gwyn 14
2nd earl of Lisburne by his elder son, also WilmotVaughan..................... 23
2nd earl of Rochester..... 10
3rd earl of Carbery,..... 15
a John VAUGHAN..................... 43
Abby of Lacock 19
Abercyfor Estate at Llandyfaelclog 14
Aberystwyth castle................... 3, 8
Abigail Barney. 32
accessory to a murder......... 23
Acton................. 8
Acts of Union of Henry VIII..... 9
Adam Moleyns 24
Adda ap Llewwlyn....................... 9
Agencourt.......... 3
Agincourt........... 7
Agincourt, 1415 32
Agricultural College..................... 15
Albury, Oxon... 27
Alice daughter to John Egerton Earl of Bridgewater. 17
Alice Vaughan.. 32
AliceVaughan wife of Robert Whitney,........ 7
All Souls College, Oxford........... 9
Alswn daughter and heir to Griffith ap Rees ap Madog an Rhyryd
flaidd 17
ALTERA SECURITAS 19
amanuensis....... 12
America............ 10
ancestor of the Vaughans of Cwmgwili and Pen-y-banc.... 4
Angharad daughter and heir of Medd ap Owen Prince of Wales....... 16
Ann Vaughan,.. 30
Ann Vaughan, grand-daughter and heir of the said John and Llenca............ 6
Ann, daughter of Paul Delahaie of Alltyrynys.. 23
Anne , described as grand daughter of James Williams of Abercothi 20
Anne daughter of John Butler.... 4
Anne daughter of John Owen of Clenennau 11
Anne daughter of the house of Nannau...... 11
Anne Laugharne. 6
Anne Vaughan 9, 10
Anne Vaughan, Duchess of Bolton.......... 15
Anne, daughter and heiress of Edward Vaughan....................... 8
Anne, heiress of John, duke of Norfolk,....... 25
Anne, the second daughter and heiress of Edward Vaughan, married
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn,..................... 11
apothecary and surgeon at Dee Bank............ 12
Arabella Philipps of Picton Castle..................... 20
Arabella, Elizabeth and Bridget.. 20
Arctic winter.... 21
Arddyn daughter to Madog Vaughan ap Madoc ap Einion Hael ap Urien
of Powys..................... 16
arms were: azure a lion rampant or between an orle of eight roses
of the second...... 5
Arthur Bevan of Laugharne.... 20
artist and violinist..................... 32
Aston Ingham Herefordshire. 5
bankruptcy order 12
Barcelona......... 13
bardic licence...... 7
baron of Fethard, Co. Tipperary 10
Baron Vaughan of Mullingar 14
baronetcv of the Picton Castle. 6
battle at Barnet.. 3
battle of Banbury..................... 24
battle of Bosworth..................... 25
battle of Mortimers Cross............. 3
battle of Naseby 9, 19
battle of St. Albans,..................... 25
battle of Tewkesbury 24
beadle of Newport..................... 47
beheaded.......... 33
beheaded at Chepstow.... 24
Ben Johnson.... 11
Bernard Vaughan a Jesuit Preacher.... 13
Bibles for the poor..................... 15
Bishop Jeremy Taylor.......... 15
bishop of Menevia..................... 13
bishop Rowland Lee............... 23
Bishop Rowland Lee................. 5
Bishop Vaughan and Lamphey Palace........... 35
Bleddyn ab Cynfyn..................... 16
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn prince of Powys..... 14
blinded............. 10
Bodidris (Denbighshire 32
Bodleian Library, Oxford........... 7
Body to King Henry VIII 7, 18
Bodysgallen..... 32
bomb................ 33
Book of Llandaff" 9
borough of Brecon..................... 23
borough of Carmarthen in Parliament.... 15
Brecknockshire and Herefordshire 23
Brecon.............. 22
Brecon Castle... 25
Brecon, Hay, Cantrecelly, Penkelli, and Alexanderston 23
Bredwardine....... 4
Bredwardine to Dunraven....... 4
Bridget Bevan.. 20
Bridget daughter and heir to Thomas, Lord of Llanllur.... 17
Bridget Vaughan. 4
Bridget, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, Llanllyr,
Cards..................... 14
Broad Oak.... 6, 18
Brochwel Ysgythrog.... 32
Brycheiniog........ 3
Bryn Euryn...... 10
Bryn Hafod...... 18
Bryn y Beirdd ( Llandeilo...... 14
buccaneers........ 15
built by Anthony Keckley for the Cornewall
family....................... 4
burial at Kington 7
Bushell"s Case.... 8
cadet branch of the Vaughan family of Golden
Grove..................... 22
Cadwgan, lord of Nannau, son of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn........ 29
Caer-gai estate.... 9
Caernarvonshire. 9
Caet-gai was burnt down.............. 9
Cambria"s......... 16
Cambriol.......... 21
Camerario Segreto do Cappa e Spada to Pope Pius X......... 13
cannon.............. 16
Capability Browne....................... 4
captain at the battle of Naseby...... 9
Captain Vaughan’ slain at Hopton... 10
Carbery............ 14
Cardiff........ 13, 22
Cardigan....... 9, 22
Cardiganshire..... 9
Cardinal Vaughan 13
Cardinal Vaughan)Archbishop of Westminster 13
Carmarthen 19, 22
Carmarthen grammar school..................... 20
Carmarthenshire 24
Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire 14
case of murder.... 7
castellated mansion..................... 24
castle of Bronllys..................... 24
Catherine ( 1594-1663), daughter of Griffith Nanney (b.
I568..................... 30
Catherine daughter and eventual heiress of Hugh Nannau........ 11
Catherine daughter of Sir Thomas Johnes of Abermarlias... 4
Catherine daughter to Henry ab Trahaiarn Morgan of Midlescomb Esq. – Vaughan of Hengwrt calls it Bodllysgwn 17
Catherine Gonway of Bryn Euryn 10
Catherine Morgan of Midlescwm............... 18, 22
Catherine Nanney..................... 11
Catherine Vaughan married. Sir Robert Knollys..................... 23
Catherine Wise. 26
Catherine, daughter of Jenkin Havard..................... 23
Catherine, daughter of John ap Robert ap John ap Lewis ap Meredith
of Glynmaelda. 30
Catherine, daughter of Morrice ap Robert, heir of Llangedwyn,.. 8
Catherine, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea....... 23
Catherine, daughter of the second son, Rowland Vaughan....... 23
Catherine, daughter of William Herbert, lord Powis............. 8
Catherine, daughter of William, lst lord Powis..... 8
Catherine, sole heiress of Maurice ap Robert, Llangedwyn... 8
Cathrin daughter of Morgan ap Davidd ap Madoc ap Davidd Van ap
David ap Griffith ap Iorwerth ap Howel ap Maredd ap Sandde......... 17
Cefn Triscoed Llandeilo 18, 20
Celynin.............. 8
chamberlain to the prince of Wales..................... 24
chancellor and receiver of the lordships and manors of Brecon, Hay,
Cantrecelly, Penkelli, and Alexanderston 23
chapel of Pant Glas’............ 10
charity schools. 20
Charles I........... 14
Charles Jerome Vaughan.... 13
Charles Vaughan 4
Charles Vaughan (d. 1636) of Tretower,.... 25
Charles Vaughan of Cwnngwili 28
Charles Vaughan of Hergest.... 5
Charles Vaughan, 7
chief justice of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire 20
chief justice of the court of Common Pleas 8
Christ Church; Oxford......... 15
Christopher Bidmede....... 14
Christopher Vaughan son of Henry Vaughan, was sheriff of Brecknock.. 25
church pla........ 23
churchwarden of the parish church at Llandrillo-yn-Rhos............ 10
Cilgodan estate. 22
Civil War 8, 10, 14
Clarendon........... 8
Clenennau..... 11
Clyro.................. 7
Clyro Radnorshire..................... 13
coat of arms was: gules three boys" heads each with a snake
proper entwined around each neck....... 5
coat of arms, three boys heads with a snake entwined about their
necks,............. 3
Colluden........... 13
Collwyn ap Tangno....................... 9
Colonel Vaughan of Rug.............. 11
combined estates of Glanyllyn, Llwydiarth and Llangedwyn. 11
command of the Royalist Association of the three western
counties....... 14
commander of the Leeward Islands..................... 10
commission of the peace for Merioneth.... 30
Commission of the Peace in Radnorshire,Herefordshire and Brecknock...... 5
commission to seize in the king’s name.... 7
commissioner of tenths of spiritualities in Radnorshire... 5
commissions of ‘oyer et terminer’...... 24
commissions of oyer and terminer......... 7
commissions to survey church plate............. 23
committed to the Tower.......... 19
Committee for Compounding 14
common recovery..................... 12
Company of Adventurers to Newfoundland 21
Comptroller of the Household to the Prince of
Wales..................... 14
comptroller of the prince’s household.... 17
condemned to a traitor’s death 32
conflict with Bishop Rowland Lee................. 5
conflict with the deputy-governor..................... 15
constable of Aberystwyth castle.............. 3
constable of Cardigan castle..................... 24
constable of Harlech........ 11
constable of Harlech Castle 11
constable of the castle of Huntingdon.... 7
Constance, daughter of James, lord Audley......... 23
convicted usurer of Rumney, John ap David Vaughan....... 44
Conway........... 32
Coppet Hill...... 12
coroner of Cardiff...................... 24
Corsygedol estate..................... 11
Countess was `a woman fit to converse with angels and apostles,
with saints and martyrs........ 15
Court of Chivalry..................... 19
Courtfield......... 12
Courtfield and Welsh Bicknor 13
Coventry Parliament 7, 24, 25
Crecy................. 3
Cromwell... 17, 19
Crosswood estate 9
Culloden........... 13
Cyhylin ab Rhun 16
Cynfyn ab Gwerystan... 16
Cynwrig........... 11
Dafydd ap Cadwgan ap Phylip Dorddu 7
Dafydd ap Ieuan ab Einion... 11
Dafydd Fychan of Llin~vent in Llanbister.... 7
Dafydd Gam 3, 32
daughter and heir to Rees ab Meirchion.... 16
daughter and heiress of Sir Walter Bredwardine.. 3
daughter and heiress of the old Welsh family of Corsygedol.. 11
daughter married Thomas Vaughan a younger son of Plas Gwyn... 12
daughter of Dafydd ap Cadwgan ap Phylip Dorddu 7
daughter of Hugh Nanney of Nannau.......... 9
daughter of James, lord Audley. 24
daughter of Ralph Nevill Earl of Westmoreland 19
daughter of Sir Walter Devereaux...... 3
daughter Sybil, wife of Hugh Lewis, Harpton......... 7
daughter to Madog Fychan ap madig ab einion hael, ab Urien of main
Gwynedd..... 16
David ap Madoc 17
David ap Robert of Llangyndeyrn 21
David Ellis, son of Rowland Ellis of Gwanas........ 30
David Fychan of Garth eryr.... 17
David Vaughan. 18
David Vaughan succeeded,...... 7
David Vaughan, described as of Trimsaran and Lletherychen 28
death of David VAUGHAN. 43
defence of the Tower of London........ 25
defense of Harlech Castle........... 11
demesne lands of Dinas........... 23
Denise, daughter of Thomas ap Philip Vaughan of Talgarth... 24
denizenship...... 24
deprived of his living............ 27
deputy lieutenant of Radnorshire 5
deputy lieutenants 9
Derllys Court.. 20
Derwydd.......... 19
died. 5 June 1700 ‘in his eightieth year,’ in Windsor castle 10
died. at Martinique..................... 10
Dinas................ 23
Dinas,............... 23
disabled from sitting in the Commons.... 19
dissolution of the monasteries.... 5
Dolgynwal lands 10
Dolmelynllyn... 30
Dorothy daughter of Richard Vaughan....... 15
Dorothy, daughter of Howell Vaughan of Glanllyn........ 8
Dr John Vaughan from............. 17
Dr E. Roland Williams....... 22
Dr Gifford Bishop of Rheims.... 13
Dr. John David Rhys.............. 7
Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd,..... 30
Dragon and a Greyhound.. 19
drowned........... 33
DRYMBENOG ap , MAE NARCH, lord of Brycheiniog... 3
duchy of Buckingham... 7
duke of Beaufort 24
duke of Monmouth..................... 20
duke of York...... 7
Dunraven........... 4
earl of Carbery 9, 14
earl of Carlisle.. 15
earl of Essex..... 14
Earl of Essex...... 5
Earl of Plymouth 4
earl of Shrewsbury..................... 33
earl of Warwick.. 7
earl of Warwick , the kingmaker 3
earl of Warwick’s..................... 24
earl’s chancellor at Cardiff......... 24
earldom became extinct.......... 15
earls of Essex..... 3
Edgecote, near Banbury......... 7
Edward Cornewall of Stapeton and his son inherited Moccas and
purchased Bredwardine.. 4
Edward de Charleton, lord of Powys,...... 8
Edward III.......... 3
Edward IV.. 24, 25
Edward Mansel 28
Edward Owen of Hengwrt, parish of Llanelltyd 29
Edward Stillingfleet,.... 8
Edward Vaughan 9, 10
Edward Vaughan of Glan-llyn and Llwydiarth....................... 8
Edward VAUGHAN, . 8
Edward, prince of Wales........... 25
Edwinsford........ 7
Efa daughter to Gronw ab Carogan Saethydd Hinfach........ 16
Efa daughter to Madig ab Vrien ab Einion,ab Les,ab Idnerth benfras
of Maesbrook.. 16
Einion............... 11
Einion Ffyll...... 16
Eleanor daughter of Robert Whitney........................ 3
Eleanor Vaughan to her husband, John Purcell of Nantcribba..... 8
Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Arundel........ 25
Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Edmund, earl of Kent............. 24
Eleanora Vaughan of Plas Gwyn 14, 22
election in Caernarvon town,............. 9
Elen daughter of Thomas Vaughan squire of Cystanog..... 12
Elen sister of John Vaughan....... 14
Elen Vaughan... 12
Elin Vaughan.... 30
Elinor Protheroe of Nantyrhelig.. 20
Eliza Louisa daughter of John Rolls , the Hendre Monmouthshire..................... 13
Elizabeth.......... 10
Elizabeth Baker 12
Elizabeth daughter of Sir Henry Wogan............ 3
Elizabeth daughter of Philip Jones of Llanarth... 13
Elizabeth daughter of Rowland Vaughan of Porthaml...... 4
Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Thomas of Meidrim....... 20
Elizabeth Mary Vaughan......... 6
Elizabeth Wise. 26
Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of David ap Robert of Llangyndeyrn..................... 21
Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Meyrick of Ucheldre...... 30
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Baskerville of Eardisley........ 7
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Thomas (nee Protheroe),
Meidrym..... 20
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Thomas Watson,
Berwick-on-Tweed.......... 10
Elizabeth, his grandson, Rowland Vaughan....... 23
Ellen Gethin....... 7
Ellen Vaughan.... 9
Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Cornewall...... 7
Elsbeth Vaughan 9
Elvell, Melenith Gwerthrynion 7
Elystan Glodrudd 7, 18
Emanual Evans. 16
English Mission 13
Epitaph of Lady Vaughan in St Peter’s Church Carmarthen.. 16
escaped to Spain, 13
esquire of the body to Henry VII. 11
estate in Montgomeryshire, Merionethshire, and
Denbighshire....................... 8
estates and grants of Sir Thomas Browne........ 25
Eugene Vaughan JP............... 18, 22
Eugenius Philalethes... 27
Eva daughter to Adda ap Awr of Trevor.......... 16
Evan ab Cyhylyn..................... 16
Evan Lloyd...... 30
Evan Lloyd Vaughan....... 11
executed. 5, 24, 25
execution.......... 24
executors of Selden"s will... 9
extinct in the male line with Sir Robert,Vaughan 8
Fallestone Wiltshire........ 4
family moved to live on her estates............ 5
family name being preserved by the heiress"s
family..................... 11
Ffances daughter and heir to Sir John Altham of Orbi in Oxfordshire
Kt..................... 17
fifth in descent from John Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth..... 8
first earl of Carbery..................... 20
first wife Malet, he was the father of John Vaughan 10
Fishguard........... 5
Flores Solitudinis,..................... 26
forester of Cantrecelly.. 24
Frances, base daughter of Thomas Somerset...... 23
Frances, daughter of John Vaughan....................... 8
Frances, daughter of Sir John Altham, Oxhey, Herts............ 14
Francis Vaughan 13
Francis Baynham Vaughan....... 13
Francis daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Knolles of Porthaml.... 4
Francis daughter of Walter Pye..... 4
Francis Laugharne 5
Francis Vaughan 14
Francis Vaughan after Harry’s. 4
Friars Park Carmarthen.. 14
From Modern Wales –David Williams Murray 1950 17
future Henry VII at Corsygedol 11
gatehouse at Corsygedol.. 11
gelignite............ 33
Gelli Gatti.......... 6
Gelli Oer, the Cold Grove........... 15
Gelligatty........... 6
General in the Spanish Army 13
general pardon 7, 25
George Herbert 26
George II.......... 13
George Vaughan of Plas Gwyn and Llandefaelog. 18
Germany.......... 10
Glyn................. 10
Glyn in Llandrillo-yn-Rhos....... 10
Golden Grove.. 14, 19, 21, 22
Golden Grove book..................... 16
Golden Grove estate....... 6, 14
Golden Grove family.... 12, 17
Golden Grove near Llandilo........ 19
governor of Berwick....... 10
governor of Jamaica..................... 15
Gower and Kidwelly...... 24
Gowers of Castle Maelgwyn..... 6
grand-daughter of Sir Walter Devereux........ 7
grandfather,Rowland Vaughan...... 9
grandson of Rhys ap Meredydd of Ysbyty Ifan. 10
Gray’s Inn. 10, 14
Gray"s Inn........ 20
Great Council of England........ 25
great grandaughter Mary Elizabeth 9
great granddaughter of Hugh Lewis of Harpton..... 4
Greyhound argent collar"d Gules 19
Griffith............. 11
Griffith ap Jenkin, lord of Broughton.... 33
Griffith Jones, Llanddowror 20
Griffith Vaughan 11
Griffith Vaughan who had Dolmelynllyn 30
Griffith who inherited Corsygedol.. 11
Griffri ap Rhys Vongam........ 32
Gruffudd ap Ieuan ap Madoc ap Gwenwys.... 32
Gruffydd ap Rhys of Dinefwr... 14
Gruffydd, great-great grandson of Celynin.......... 8
Gryffydd Fychan..................... 17
Gwaun............... 5
Gwaythfoed Prince of Cardigan March.......... 16
Gweaethfoed fawr of Powys..... 16
Gwempa.......... 27
Gwengraig........ 30
Gwenllian daughter of Llewelyn ap Gwilym....... 18
Gwenllian daughter of Llewelyn ap Gwilym of nearby Bryn Hafod............. 7
Gwervyl daughter to Gruffydd ab Rhys ab Gryffydd ab Madoc ab
Iorwerth ab Madog ab Ryryd ffaidd........... 17
Gwerystan ab Gwaethfoed. 16
Gwilym ap Thomas, Esq.. 7, 18
Gwilym Vychan 5
Gwladus, was heir of Llwydiarth 8
Gwladys............ 3
Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam............. 3, 7, 24
Gwyneddigion Society of London........ 32
Gwynfardd Dyfed 5
Gwynne Vaughan..................... 20
Gwynne Vaughan of Jordanston..................... 28
Gwynne Vaughan of Jordonston in Pembrokeshire 20
Gwysaney......... 9
Haer daughter to Cyllyn ab Blaiddrhydd o’r Gest............. 16
half brother William Herbert........ 24
halfbrother John Vaughan....... 13
Hammersmith.. 32
Harlech............. 11
Harlech Castle.. 11
Harry Vaughan... 4
Harry Vaughan of Moccas and Bredwardine 4
Harry Vaughan of Moccas and Bredwardine heir................. 4
Haverfordwest. 14, 19
Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph..... 33
Haverfordwest Wesleyian Methodist.... 29
heir of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower...... 24
heir was Roger Vaughan......... 4
heiress of Richard Baynham of Aston Ingham Herefordshire. 5
heiress of the Dunraven and Pen-bre estates 4
Hengwrt........... 11
Hengwrt library; 29
Henry Donne... 24
Henry Myle of Newcourt..... 23
Henry of Monmouth.. 13
Henry Rees of Roch.............. 6
Henry Tudor Earl of Richmond 19
Henry V....... 3, 32
Henry Vaughan 10, 18, 22, 23
Henry Vaughan of Plas Gwyn... 18
Henry Vaughan (I)..................... 10
Henry Vaughan (II)............... 10
Henry Vaughan of Derwydd..... 19
Henry Vaughan of Glanrhydw.. 18
Henry Vaughan of Pant Glas, 10
Henry Vaughan of Plas Gwyn... 18
Henry Vaughan the Silurist. 26
Henry Vaughan was ‘deceased’..................... 10
Henry Vaughan, father of Sir Thomas ap Harry or
Parry..................... 25
Henry Vaughan, Gelli-goch, Machynlleth 29
HENRY VAUGHAN, SILURIST... 26
Henry VII........ 19
Henry VII,....... 25
Henry VIII’s pardon roll... 23
Herbert M. Vaughan, 1937..................... 19
Herbert Vaughan ( Cardinal Vaughan)Archbishop of Westminster 13
Hergest............... 7
Hergest, Blethvaugh, Nash, and Llaneinion...... 7
heritic............... 17
High Sheriff 18, 28
High Sheriff for Merioneth.... 11
High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire..................... 11
High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire..................... 18
High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1746......... 22
Hirlas Horn at Golden Grove 19
Holy Dying,..... 14
Holy Living, 1650,..................... 14
Hopton castle, Shropshire... 10
house designed by Robert Adams 4
House of Commons..................... 14
Howel Fychan described as of Trimsaran 27
Howell ap thomas of Perth-hir.. 13
Howell Vaughan 30
Howell Vaughan (d. 1639), of Gwengraig.... 29
Howell Vaughan, of Vanner, sheriff of Merioneth 30
Hugh Evans of Berth-lwyd in Llanelltyd.... 30
Hugh Fychan of Cedweli........ 17
Hugh Nannau... 11
Hugh Nanney of Nannau, Merioneth...... 9
Hugh Vaughan.. 30
Hugh Vaughan of Hengwrt....... 11
Hugh Vaughan of Hengwrt and Jonet Nanney 11
Hugh Vaughan of Llether Llesty 18
Hugh Vaughan, Esq., of Kidwelly, Gentleman Usher to King Henry
VII"... 15
Hugh Wynn..... 32
Humphrey Kynaston..... 24
Humphrey Pugh of Aberffrydlan 30
Humphrey, duke of Gloucester... 32
hundred pieces of cannon......... 21
Huntingdon and Kington........ 23
Huntingdon, Herefordshire. 7
Hynych daughter and heir to Eynydd ab Morris......... 16
Ieuan Goch of Trawsgoed..... 9
Ieuan Gwilym Vaughan of White Peyton 23
illegitimate children are ascribed to Sir Roger Vaughan....... 24
illegitimate daughter of Edmund, earl of Kent........ 24
illegitimate son of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower....... 8
ill-treatment of his servants and tenants at Dryslwyn.... 14
impeach............ 14
in Montgomeryshire..................... 9
indulgence for those who would pray for her husband’s soul 7
Inner Temple..... 8
Inner Temple in 1658............. 15
Irish campaign of 1599............. 14
Isabella the daughter of David VAUGHAN. 43
Ivanni Vaghan ap Ievan ap Howel,..................... 38
James 6th of Scotland and 1st of England.... 17
James Usher, archbishop of Armagh,....... 30
James Vaughan... 6, 13
JAMES VAUGHAN.. 8
James Vaughan and his son James Vaughan......... 6
James Vaughan of Hergest.... 7
James Williams of Abercothi..... 20
James, lord Audley............... 23, 24
Jane daughter of David ap Morganap John ap Phillip....... 4
Jane daughter to Morus ab Owein ap Griffith ap Nicholas of
Llechdwnni.. 17
Jane Steadman.... 9
Jane the daughter of John Stedman 10
Jane Thelwall, heir of Plas-y-ward 8
Jane Vaughan... 30
Jane, daughter of Robert Owen, Ystumcegid.. 30
Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer of Wingham...... 14
Jane, lady Ferrers..................... 25
Jane,daughter of Edward Price, Tref Prysg, Llanuwchllyn. 9
Jane,daughter of Edward Price, Tref Prysg, Llanuwchllyn, 9
Jasper Tudor 11, 25
Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke 24, 25
Jeffrey of Pale.. 30
Jenkin Havard.. 23
Jeremy Taylor. 14
Jesus College.... 26
Jesus College, Oxford,........ 21
Joan daughter of Miles ap harry of Newcourt.. 4
Joan and Elizabeth, sisters and co-heirs Henry Myle of Newcourt..... 23
Joan married . his second son, Walter Vaughan of Moccas....... 23
Joan Townshend, of Shropshire 10
Joan, daughter of Ieuan Gwilym Vaughan of White Peyton 23
Joan, daughter of Robert Whitney by Constance, daughter of James,
lord Audley......... 23
Joanna Bridges, heiress of the estate of Mandinam, Llangadog..... 15
John ab Ynyr,.. 30
John Allen of Carreg Lwyd 15
John ap Gwilym of Gillow Herefordshire 13
John Ashburnham 4
John Aylmer, bishop of London........ 31
John Brown of Ffrwd........... 28
John Earl of Carbery........ 17
John Evans of Trefenty gent. 6
John F Vaughan 13
John Francis Vaughan....... 13
John Francis Vaughan,...... 13
John Fychan of Golden Grove 17
John Guy of Bristol.......... 21
John Hastings Earl of Pembroke.. 3
John Jones of Gellilyfdy.... 30
John Laugharne of St. Brides....... 6
John Lewis of Llynwene....... 7
John Lloyd JP.. 22
John Lloyd JP who married Eleanora Vaughan of Plas Gwyn.......... 14
John Lloyd of Berth............ 12
John Mason"s map of Newfoundland published about
1622............. 22
John Mitford (later Baron Redesdale..................... 12
John Owen Vaughan......... 8
John Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth..... 8
John Parker of Devon.......... 15
John Purcell of Nantcribba..... 8
John SeIden...... 30
John Selden,;...... 8
John Thomas John farmer of Penddaulwyn 12
John Thomas John...................... 12
John Vaghan 36, 38
John Vaghan,.... 37
John Vaughan. 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22
"John Vaughan.. 32
John Vaughan (1769-1831), 3rd earl of Lisburne.... 23
John Vaughan , an illegitimate son of Watkin Vaughan......... 3
John Vaughan and his wife Ellen. 9
John Vaughan co-adjutor bishop of Salford........ 13
John Vaughan inherited Courtfield and Welsh Bicknor 13
John Vaughan of Abergavenny. 5
John Vaughan of Courtfields... 13
John Vaughan of Cuckoo, Haverfordwest..................... 33
John Vaughan of Derllys......... 20
John Vaughan of Golden Grove 18
John Vaughan of Golden Grove (..................... 15
John Vaughan of Huntingham. 13
John Vaughan of Narberth...... 29
John Vaughan of Plas Gwyn... 22
John Vaughan of Stepney....... 17
John Vaughan, 1 st Earl of Carbery..................... 19
John Vaughan, Cefnbodig.... 29
John Vaughan, Golden Grove 20
John Vaughan, lst earl of Carbery..................... 21
John Vaughan, the second viscount Lisburne....... 10
John Wesley 28, 29
John Wyclif..... 17
John,Vaughan who was the 3rd and last earl of Carbery........ 14
JohnVaughan 10, 18
Jonet daughter of John, Lord Strange of Knocking..... 16
Joseph Vaughan O.S.B........... 13
juries were not to be fined for returning a verdict against the
direction of the judge........ 8
justice Sir John Vaughan , of Trawsgoed, Cards.,....... 10
Katherin second daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys of Dinefw..................... 14
Katherine Vaughan..................... 10
keeper of Henry VI"s great wardrobe...... 25
Kenelm Vaughan 13
Kerne Bridge.... 12
killed by an arrow 3
killed in the Civil War.............. 10
killing the mayor of Carmarthen;... 8
Kit-Kat Club.... 15
knighted. 8, 19, 23
La Torre,.......... 36
Lady Alice Egerton, daughter of John, lst earl of Bridgwater... 14
Lady Elizabeth. 19
Lady Katherine Vaughan....... 29
lady Mostyn.... 32
Lampley v. Thomas.......... 9
Lanteg.............. 36
Laugharne........... 5
lawless fishermen..................... 16
Leeward Islands 10
Leland.............. 23
Letitia daughter of Sir John Perrot..................... 14
Letitia, daughter of Sir William Hooker......... 10
Lettice Lloyd of Maesyfelin, Lampeter..... 28
Lettice Vaughan. 5
Lewis Glyn Cothi 8, 24
Lewis Gwyn Vaughan....... 31
Lewis Owen , baron of the Exchequer of North Wales. 29
Lewis Vaghan... 44
Lewis Vaughan. 43, 47
Lewis Vaughan of Jordanston... 29
LewisVaughan.... 3
Liberty of Prophesying 15
Lieutenant Colonel Barry St Leger of St Margaret’s, Westminster 28
Lieutenant Cook 28
Lieutenant General Sir John Vaughan..................... 10
Llanafan, Cards.. 9
Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog........... 9
Llanarth............ 13
Llanbedr, Painscastle and Rhulen........... 3
Llandeilo-fawr.. 14
Llandrillo-yn-Rhos..................... 10
Llandswywe Church......... 11
Llandydie Church..................... 17
Llanelli – church 17
Llanfair Nant-Gwyn.......... 31
Llanfihangel Cwm-du, Brecknock 23
Llanfihangelyng-Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire..................... 8
Llangar............... 9
Llangedwyn....... 8
Llangeler Carmarthenshire..................... 16
Llangyndeyrn... 15, 21, 22
Llan-llrwch church, Carmarthenshire..................... 20
Llansantffraed.. 26, 27
Llanynys, Denbs 9
Llechryd and Cwn Du.................. 3
Llenca................. 5
Llether Cadfan 6, 18
Lleucu daughter to Hywell Goch ab Mared Van ab Medd henab Hywell ab
Medd ab Bleddyn ap Cynfin......... 16
Llewelyn............ 5
Lloyds of Leighton and Marrington..................... 33
Lloyds of Maes-mawr............ 33
Llwydiarth......... 8
Llwydiarth, Llan gedwyn, and Glan-llyn....... 8
Llywellyn........ 11
Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Philip ap Iorwerth....... 44
Llywelyn ap Morgan ap David Gamme 46
Llywelyn Fychan 9
Llywelyn the Great........... 11
Llywelyn Vaughan..................... 44
Llywelyn Vaughan;..................... 43
Lodwicus Vaghan..................... 44
Lollard.............. 32
Lord Ashburnham 4
Lord Baltimore"s settlers......... 21
Lord Burghley.... 4
lord lieutenant of the militia..... 14
lord of Cantrecelly and Penkelly, owner of Merthyr Tydfil and
Llandimore, and various lands in Glamorgan 24
Lord Somerset.. 24
lord-president of the Marches of Wales at
Ludlow..................... 14
Lords Falkland and Baltimore..... 21
Lords of the Admiralty.... 10
lordship of Brecknock,... 25
lordship of Gower..................... 25
Lordship of Kidwelly...... 27
Lordship of Talgarth......... 3
lordship~ of Brecknock, Hay, and Huntingdon 7
lordships of Cantrecelly, Penkelly, Alexanders ton, and Llangoed 24
lords-lieutenant of Cardiganshire 10
Louis de Gruthuyse..................... 25
Lowry neice of Owain Glyn Dwr............. 11
Lowry, daughter of Griffith Derwas of Cemes,..... 30
lst earl of Carbery..................... 21
lst earl of Lisburne.... 23
Luck of Courtfield...................... 13
Lucy Vaughan.... 9
Lucy Walter..... 20
Lucy, daughter of chief justice Sir John Vaughan , of Trawsgoed,
Cards......... 10
Ludford............ 25
Ludlow............. 14
Madam Bevan.. 18, 20
Madoc Cyffyn. 17
Madoc of Hope in Worthen....... 33
Madog ab Medd 16
Madog Goch.... 16
Major General Rowland Laugharne...... 5
Major John Francis D.L. of Carmarthen.... 6
Mallwyd............ 9
Margaret daughter of Sir Evan Lloydof Bodidris Denbyshire.. 11
Margaret married as his second wife Charles Vaughan of Hergest........ 5
Margaret daughter of Rhys ap Gwilym ap Llewelyn ap Meyrick......... 4
Margaret daughter of Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml...... 5
Margaret daughter to Sir Gelly Meirick Kt... 17
Margaret Mansel of Swansea....... 28
Margaret Morgan of Mudlescwm..................... 28
Margaret Vaughan................. 9, 30
Margaret Williams of Ystradffin, 28
Margaret, daughter of Bonham Norton of Church Stretton..................... 10
Margaret, daughter of Edward Owen of Hengwrt, parish of Llanelltyd,... 29
Margaret, daughter of Griffith ap Jenkin, lord of Broughton.... 33
Margaret, daughter of Madoc of Hope in Worthen....... 33
Margaret, daughter of Sir Gelly Meyrick....... 14
Margaret, daughter of Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml...... 7
Margaret, lady Powis........... 24
Margaret, who married Sir Roger Mostyn....... 11
Margery daughter of Richard Monington..... 5
Marl estate....... 10
married Catherine,daughter of WilliamWynne of Glyn, Merioneth...... 9
married David Jones Gwynne of Taliaris
Carmarthenshire..................... 11
married Edward Cornewall of Stapeton........ 4
married Jane or Joan daughter and heiress of Richard Clarke of
Wellington Herefordshire 13
Martinique....... 10
Mary daughter to Gruffidd Rice fitz Urien Esq 17
Mary Vaughan of Derwydd..... 28
Mary Vaughan of Tre-cwn....... 29
Mary, daughter of Maurice Wynn, Glyn, near Harlech........ 29
Master in Chancery..................... 12
Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple. 8
master of the king"s ordnance...... 25
Matilda verch Ieuan ap Rees.......... 3
Matthew Herbert, rector of Llangattock.. 26
Maurice ap Robert, Llangedwyn... 8
Maurice Lewis. 29
Maurice Wynn, Glyn............ 29
mayor of Carmarthen borough........ 20
Medd ab Bleddyn..................... 16
medical handbook..................... 22
Mefenydd.......... 9
member of Gray’s Inn............... 10
Member of Parliament.... 19
Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire..................... 23
Member of Parliament for Cardigan. 10, 23
Member of Parliament for Carmarthen.. 20
Member of Parliament for Carmarthen borough........ 14
Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire..................... 14
Member of Parliament for Radnor borough 8
member of Parliament for Radnorshire... 5
Member of Parliament for Radnorshire... 7
Member of Parliament for the Montgomery boroughs,....... 8
Meredith Lloyd of Welshpool... 30
Milford Haven. 14
Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire 19
Mill Hill Fathers 13
Moccas and Bredwardine.. 4
Mont gomeryshire 8
Moreiddig Warwyn....................... 5
MOREIDDIG WARWYN..... 3
Moreiddig Warwyns.... 28
Morgan ap Jenkin ‘ap Philip’ of Gwent.......... 25
Morgan ap Thomas ap GrufFudd ap Nicolas......... 24
Morgan Gamage 24
Morrice ap Robert, heir of Llangedwyn... 8
mortgaged the property........ 6
Mortimer’s Cross..................... 24
Morus Fychan ap Ieuan.............. 9
Morvydd daughter of Ynyr King of Gwent.......... 16
Mr Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt.. 16
Mr. King, in his Munimenta.. 24
murders and felonies........ 32
Nannau.......... 11
Nannau and Hengwrt....... 12
Nanteg.............. 37
Nash, near Presteign........ 7
National Library of Wales....... 9, 16
Neath abbey..... 24
Nest daughter to Cadell ap Brochwell Prince of Powys..... 16
New Cambriol"s 15
New Camhriol.. 21
New Wales....... 16
Newfoundland. 15
Newlander"s Cure............... 16, 22
Newport castle 47
niece Margaret wife of Sir Roger Mostyn bart 11
niece to Blanch Parry queen Elizabeth’s maid of honour....... 4
Norman Castle. 23
Nova Scotia...... 15
nuns................. 13
of Sir Roger Vaughan......... 3
offices of steward, receiver, and master of the game in
Herefordshire and Ewyas,.. 25
Old Pembrokeshire families........ 43
Olor Iscanus..... 26
one of the lewdest fellows of the age.............. 15
ordained in Rheims..................... 13
Order of the Golden Fleece 25
order of the Privy Council........ 24
Oriel College, Oxford......... 29
Orpheus Junior 21
Osbwrn Wyddel..................... 11
outlawed.... 13, 33
Owain Glyn Dwr 8, 32
Owain Glyn Dwr...................... 11
Owain Tudor... 24
Owen Glyndwr 23
Owen Jones..... 32
Owen Vaughan, Llwydiarth, Mont............. 8
OwenVaughan.... 8
Oxford................ 9
oyer et terminer’ 24
Pant Glas lands 10
Pant-mawr farm in Broniarth..... 32
pardon.... 8, 13, 23
pardoned for murder........... 5
pardoned on 9 July 1491............. 23
Parliamentarians. 8
Parliamentary fleet..................... 14
Parochialia of Edward Lhuyd..................... 10
Paul Delahaie of Alltyrynys.. 23
Pembrey........... 17
Pembrey Church 28
Pembroke... 14, 29
Penarth Manuscript 156..................... 16
Pendine Great house........... 28
Pennsylvania;... 30
Pentre Meyrick estate........... 28
Penybanc Issa – Abergwili..... 28
Philip Malpas.. 25
Philipps Laugharne....................... 6
Phillip Vaughan of Carmarthen.. 14
Picton Castle...... 6
pierced with a lance..................... 33
Pill.................... 19
Pill on Milford Haven.......... 14
piracy............... 29
pirate................ 21
pirates and privateers..... 16
Pistyll Meugan 31
plague at Presteigne....................... 8
Plas Gwyn. 12, 18
Plas Gwyn LLandyfaelog 18, 22
Plas Hen Llanystumdwy..................... 11
Plas Iolyn, Voelas, Cernioge, and Rhiwlas........ 10
Plas-mawr (Conway...... 32
Plas-yn-ddol, in Edeirnion..... 11
Poems.............. 26
poet.................. 23
Pontfaen......... 5, 6
Pontfaen Farm in the Gwaun Valley............ 6
Pontfaen House. 6
Poor Knights of Windsor....... 10
porter of the castle of Bronllys.. 24
Porthaml.. 4, 7, 23
Porthaml and Newcourt..... 23
portrait by William Williams 1785 15
Poyer and Laugharne.... 14
Prayer Book into Welsh............. 9
president of the Royal Society 15
Price of Gogerddan North Wales 16
priests.............. 13
Prince Charles forces........... 13
Prince Charles to Madrid......... 17
princes of Powys 8
prisoner in the Tower of London........ 29
Privy Council... 22, 24
Puritans............ 31
Quakers............ 32
Queen Elizabeth’s pardon roll... 23
queen Margaret 25
Queen Mary’s pardon roll... 23
Queen, Elizabeth of York............. 19
R. v. Athos........ 9
Rachel, daughter of Sir Henry Vaughan, Derwydd..... 20
Raleigh"s captains..................... 21
Ravensdale Llangunnor... 14
rebuilt Plas Hen Llanystumdwy..................... 11
rebuilt Bredwardine Castle............. 4
rebuilt Corsyedol 11
receiver of the lordship of Brecon........... 7
rector of Llangar. 9
rector of Tilston, Cheshire......... 8
recusants.......... 31
Recusants Rolls 13
Red Book of Hergest.......... 7
Red Dragon the Engsigne of Cadwalader.. 19
relict of Hugh Tudor of Egryn..................... 30
resigning his commission.. 14
Restoration...... 14
Restoration........ 8
returned to Parliament for Merioneth...... 8
Rev Hetwall Henry Mainwaring rector of Etwell 9
Rev. Hugh Pryse 12
Rhosier Hen....... 3
Rhun ab Einion 16
Rhys................ 11
Rhys and Sion Cain..................... 30
Rhys ap Meredydd of Ysbyty Ifan..................... 10
Rhys ap Robert ap Owen............. 5
Rice Vaughan 20, 29
Rice Vaughan, sheriff.......... 32
Richard Vaughan 14
Richard Arden.... 6
Richard Baynham of Aston Ingham Herefordshire. 5
Richard Clarke of Wellington Herefordshire 13
Richard Earl of Carbery Lord Molingar and Emlyn Kt of Bath Lord
President of the marches of Wales and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy
Council married......... 17
Richard Grey... 33
Richard III........ 25
Richard III........ 19
Richard Richard 12
Richard Vaughan 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20
Richard Vaughan Bishop of Bangor/Chester/London........ 31
Richard Vaughan Lord Vaughan of Golden Grove 14
Richard Vaughan inherited Courtfield.... 13
Richard Vaughan of Derllys......... 18
Richard Vaughan of Shenfield in Essex,........... 15
Richard Vaughan of Whitland...... 29
Richard Vaughan, 20
Richard Vaughan, second Earl of Carbery........ 19
Richard Vaughan’s..................... 13
Richard, duke of Gloucester... 25
River Wye.......... 4
Robert ap Rhys 10
Robert ap Rhys left his Dolgynwal lands............ 10
Robert Devereux Earl of Essex 29
Robert Howell Vaughan....... 12
Robert Howell Vaughan....... 12
Robert Owen (d. 1685) , of Dolserau...... 30
Robert Powell s daughter....... 12
Robert Powell Vaughan,...... 29
Robert Raglan.. 24
ROBERT VAGHAN... 30
Robert Vaughan 12, 29
Robert VAUGHAN..................... 43
Robert Vaughan of Monmouth.. 24
Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt......... 9
Robert Vaughan, sheriff of Radnorshire 8
Robert Vaughan, son of Tudor Vaughan of Caerynwch.. 30
Robert Whitney. 7
Roger and Thomas Vaughan......... 5
Roger ap Roger of Tyle-glas...... 23
Roger Mortimer. 3
Roger Vaughan 4, 5, 7, 8, 23, 32
Roger Vaughan (see Vaughan family of Clyro 7
Roger Vaughan and Margaret’s son Roger Vaughan 5
Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine 24
Roger Vaughan of Clyro......... 7
Roger Vaughan of Talgarth. 23
Roger Vaughan of Tyle-glas 23
Roger Vaughan third son of Thomas ap Roger Vaughan of Hergest........ 4
Roger Vaughan, of Talgarth, 23
Roger Vaughan’s son John Vaughan......... 5
Roger Vaughan-see Vaughan family of Porthaml.. 24
Roger Vychan.. 3
Roger William Vaughan Archbishop of Sydney........ 13
Roman catholic priest........... 13
Rowland Laugharne............... 14, 19
Rowland Philipps Esq., of Orlandon,....... 5
Rowland Philipps of Orlandon a cadet of the Picton Castle
family,........... 6
Rowland Vaughan 4, 9, 23
Rowland Vaughan (....................... 9
Rowland Vaughan (c. 1590-1667), of Caer-gai, Merioneth,..... 9
Rowland Vaughan died................ 9
Rowland Vaughan of Bredwardine 4
Rowland Vaughan of Porthaml...... 4
Rowland Vaughan was imprisoned in Chester...... 9
Royal Armes of Henry VII.... 19
royal palace’ at Cardiff......... 24
royalist............. 22
Royalist........... 19
Royalist forces. 19
Royalist forces in Pembrokeshire 14
Ruardean Glostershire. 13
Rug................... 12
S. John"s CoIIege, Cambridge.... 31
S.P.C.K............ 20
Sage daughter of John Mansel of Stradey........ 28
Sage Philips of Derwydd..... 20
Samual Starbuck 32
Samuel Butler... 14
Samuel Pepys.. 15
Sarah Phillips of Llanybydder 20
scurvy........ 16, 22
sea-sickness..... 22
second son, Thomas Vaughan..................... 23
seneschal of the lordship of Brecknock...... 7
she slew, with her own hand....... 7
sheriff of Brecknock 23, 26
sheriff of Brecknockshire..................... 23
Sheriff of Brecknockshire 5
Sheriff of Carmarthen Town..... 18, 22
sheriff of Carmarthenshire............... 19, 21
Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1557........... 4
Sheriff of Herefordshire. 3
sheriff of Merioneth...... 8
sheriff of Montgomeryshire..................... 8
sheriff of Radnorshire... 5
Sheriff of Radnorshire... 5
sheriffof Merionethin 1669-70......... 9
Sibyl daughter of Howell ap Thomas Goch. 5
Sibyl fourth daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Vaughan of Llether
Cadfan........... 6
Sibyl Vaughan fourth daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Vaughan of
Llether Cadfan......... 18
signed Gruffudd Hiraethog’s.... 7
Silex Scintillans 26
Silvanus Vaughan 8
Sinai Lloyd, a widow of Oswestry..... 12
Sion Hir ap Phylip Fychan 7
Sir Charles Vaughan....................... 4
Sir Charles Vaughan of Dunraven... 23
Sir Charles Vaughan’s son 4
Sir David Kirke 22
Sir Edward de Cherleton lord of Powys......... 32
Sir Edward Mansel, 2nd Baronet.. 28
Sir Francis Bacon 15
Sir Gelly Meyrick..................... 14
Sir Gelly Meyrick of Pembroke 5
Sir George Herbert of Swansea... 23
Sir Ghristopher Talbot.......... 33
Sir Godwin Philipps......... 6
Sir Griffith ap Rice..................... 23
Sir Griffith Vaughan....... 17
Sir GRUFFUDD VAUGHAN, (d. 1447), soldier, of Broniarth and Trelydan,
parish of Guilsfield, Mont........... 32
Sir Henry Bridgeman.... 12
Sir Henry Grey, earl of Tancarville,.. 33
Sir Henry Morgan..................... 15
Sir Henry Salusbury of Denbigh....... 22
Sir Henry Vaughan..................... 14
Sir Henry Vaughan ( 1587 ?-1659 ?), Royalist,...... 19
Sir Henry Vaughan “Knight Colonel to his late Majesty Charles
I................... 17
Sir Henry Vaughan of Derwydd 14, 18
Sir Henry Vaughan of Derwydd and Tygwyn. 18, 20
Sir Henry Vaughan of Golden Grove..................... 20
Sir Henry Vaughan, Derwydd..... 20
Sir Henry Wogan 3
Sir Hugh Johneys knight of the Sepulchre....... 3
Sir Hugh Stafford, lord of Caus. 32
Sir James Berkeley, heiress of Tretower...... 24
Sir John Grey... 32
Sir John Oldcastle a follower of John Wyclif. 17
Sir John Oldcastle, lord Cobham 32
Sir John Perrot. 14, 29
Sir John Philipps of Picton castle, Pembs.......... 20
Sir John Vaughan 14
Sir John Vaughan of Golden Grove 17
Sir John Vaughan of Golden Grove later 1st
Earl of Carbery........ 18
Sir Marmaduke Lloyd........... 26
Sir Matthew Hale 8
Sir Richard Herbert..... 3, 7
Sir Richard Vaughan knighted at Tournai.......... 3
Sir Richard Whitbourne.. 21
Sir Richards Vaughan’s heir Walter Vaughan....................... 4
Sir Robert Harley 8
Sir Robert Knolles of Porthaml.... 4
Sir Robert Knollys..................... 23
Sir Robert Vaughan....................... 8
Sir Robert Williames Vaughan....... 30
Sir Robert"s widow....................... 8
Sir Roger Vaughan..................... 24
Sir Roger Vaughan of Tre tower............. 7
Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower..... 23
Sir Roger Vaughan third son of Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine..................... 24
Sir Simonds d"Ewes..................... 30
Sir Thomas Vaughan of Tretower...... 25
Sir Thomas ap Harry or Parry..................... 25
Sir Thomas Palmer of Wingham. 14
Sir Thomas Stepney of Prendergast ( Haverfordwest..................... 29
Sir Thomas Stepney, the last baronet, `for more than 3o years groom
of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. Frederick, Duke of Yor.......... 17
Sir Thomas Vaughan......... 3
Sir Thomas Vaughan of Monmouth /Tretower..... 24
Sir ThomasVaughan..................... 25
Sir Walter Bredwardine.. 3
Sir Walter Devereaux...... 3
Sir Walter Vaughan....................... 4
Sir Walter Vaughan’s...... 4
Sir Watkin William Wynn............. 9
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn 3rd bart. of Wynnstay. 8
Sir William Alexander..... 15
Sir William ap Thomas........ 24
Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan............ 3
Sir William Herbert................. 7, 24
Sir William Hooker..................... 10
Sir William Vaughan....... 22
Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml...... 5
Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml...... 7
Sir William Vaughan of Trecoed........ 18
Sir’ Philip Emlyn 25
sister of John Vaughan......... 8
sixth son of Thomas Vaughan of Farthingsbrook 6
sold Dunraven.... 4
son of Henry Vaughan (I... 10
south-east England..................... 25
south-west England..................... 24
Spain................ 13
Spanish army... 13
SPCK ( Society for the Spread of Christian Knowledge... 18, 22
squires of Rhiwlas, Maesyneuadd and Rhiwddeiliog..................... 12
Sr. Griffith Vaughan of Gwenwys Kt 32
Stedman of Strata Florida........... 9
Sterred Chambre 47
steward and receiver of the lordship of Dinas........... 23
steward, constable, porter, and receiver of Abergavenny 25
stewardship and receivership of the castle and lordship of
Huntingdon, Herefordshire. 7
stewardship of the castles and lordships of Huntingdon and Kington........ 23
Strata Marcella. 32
sub-grant of territory....... 15
surveying the monastic houses and chapels.... 5
Sybil, daughter of Sir John Baskerville..... 7
taken prisoner.. 19
taken under escort to London...... 5
Talgarth.............. 3
Talgarth, Brecknock.... 23
Taliaris Carmarthenshire..................... 11
Temple Church.. 8
Tenby.............. 14
Tenby Pembrokeshire ................... 4
"Terrible Double Murder........ 33
Thalia Rediviva 26
the abnormally stout Member of Parliament for Merioneth.... 11
The Account of the Official Progress of His Grace Henry the First
Duke of Beaufort through Wales 1684.. 19
the ancient true Celtique or Brittish tongue 9
The Cadet Families of the Vaughans of Golden
Grove..................... 18
THE DECLINE OF THE WELSH SQUIRES... 11
the first of the family to live at Caer-gai.......... 9
the Floyd MSS 43
The Golden Fleece (1626).......... 21
The Golden Grove, Moralized in Three bookes: A Work very Necessary
for all such as would know how to Gouerne them selves, their Houses or their
Country........ 15
THE GREAT SESSIONS... 43
The Mount o.f Olives.......... 26
the next land beyond Ireland" a country........ 15
the Privy Council..................... 16
The Vaughans of South Pembrokeshire 33
the ward of Llywelyn the Great........... 11
third son of Sir Roger Vaughan..................... 23
Thomas ap John ap Guilam Vaghan..................... 47
Thomas ap Philip Vaughan of Talgarth....... 24
Thomas ap Rhys 14
Thomas ap Rhys and Elen lived at Ravensdale Llangunnor... 14
Thomas ap Robert Fychan of Nyffryn, Llyn 31
Thomas ap Roger of Hergest........ 3
Thomas ap Roger Vaughan of Hergest........ 4
Thomas ap Roger Vaughan, son of Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine 7
Thomas ap Roger- who founded the Vaughan of of Hergest family 3
Thomas ap Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower....... 7
Thomas ap Thomas Fychan of Llether Cadfan 7, 18
Thomas Cook.. 43
Thomas Cromwell................. 5, 23
Thomas David Rhys of Blaenant... 6, 18
Thomas Dinley 19
Thomas Hobbes. 8
Thomas Kerslake 30
Thomas Lloyd, Llanllyr, Cards..................... 14
Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn.... 10
Thomas Reed of Carmarthen ap Thomas Reed hen............... 27
Thomas Somerset..................... 23
Thomas Vaghan 46
Thomas Vaghan, 44
Thomas Vaughan 4, 7, 10, 12, 13, 18, 22, 24, 27, 43, 44
Thomas Vaughan of Hergest...... 7
Thomas Vaughan Sheriff of Carmarthenshire....................... 4
Thomas Vaughan (I)................. 10
Thomas Vaughan (II),.............. 10
Thomas Vaughan (III);............. 10
Thomas Vaughan (IV);............. 10
Thomas Vaughan and Ellen........ 7
Thomas Vaughan described then as being of Clyro 5
THOMAS VAUGHAN Esq of Cwnngwili 28
Thomas Vaughan of Cystanog..... 18
Thomas Vaughan of Cystanog – Abergwili..... 12
Thomas Vaughan of Farthingsbrook Pembrokeshire 6
Thomas Vaughan of Farthingshook 6
Thomas Vaughan of Llether Cadfan 6
Thomas Vaughan of Llowes......... 5
Thomas Vaughan of Vorlan Maenclochog gent and Margaret his
wife................ 6
Thomas Vaughan squire of Cystanog..... 12
Thomas Vaughan was twice married......... 10
Thomas Vaughan, ( Sir Thomas Vaughan of Tretower who died c.1493). 43
Thomas Vaughan’s heir................. 4
Thomas Vichan ap Robert ap Rice............ 10
Thomas Wyatt. 15
Three Torr,"..... 24
Torcoed............ 21
Torre,............... 37
Tower of London..................... 29
Town of the Tower..................... 24
Trawsgoed......... 9
Trecoed and Cambriol...... 21
tree which displayed the sign of the cross at St Donats. 23
Tref Prysg.......... 9
Tref Prysg, Llanuwchllyn. 9
Trenewydd (Newton), Brecknock.... 26
Tre"r twr........... 24
Tretower..... 7, 23
Tretower Court 23
TRETWR........ 24
Tre-twr,........... 24
Tripaney Bay.. 21
Tudo (or Dudo), daughter and heiress of Ieuan Goch of Trawsgoed..... 9
Tudur Penllyn.... 7
two oil portraits of the chief Justice in Wales......... 9
Tybod daughter to Medd ab Tudor ab Gronw, ab Hywell y gadeir..................... 17
Tywi Valley..... 22
Ultra Aeron........ 9
uncle John Vaughan....... 13
Upchurch, Kent. 9
uterine brother... 7
Vaghan’s of South Pembrokeshire 1330’s.......... 36
Vaughan............. 7
Vaughan- minister of Rubuxton. 31
Vaughan – Sheriff of Haverfordwest..................... 31
Vaughan family could claim continuous residence on the same site
for six centuries........ 9
VAUGHAN family of Bredwardine 3
Vaughan Family of Corsygedol.. 11
Vaughan Family of Courtfield Herefordshire. 5
Vaughan family of Courtfield Herefordshire 12
Vaughan family of Golden Grove 14
Vaughan family of Llwydiarth..... 9
VAUGHAN family of Llwydiarth, Mont............. 8
Vaughan family of Porthaml...... 24
Vaughan Family of Tretower 26
Vaughan family of Tretower Court..................... 26
VAUGHAN family, of Hergest, Kington, Herefords....... 7
VAUGHAN family, of Trawsgoed (Crosswood;), Cards............. 9
VAUGHAN family, of Tretower Court........... 23
VAUGHAN family, of’ Porthaml, 23
VAUGHAN family, Pant Glas............. 10
Vaughan house of Corsygedol.. 32
Vaughan of of Hergest family 3
Vaughan of Cystanog..... 12
Vaughan of Moccas,...... 23
Vaughan of Tretower family....................... 3
Vaughan pew..... 8
VAUGHAN, EDWARD..... 8
VAUGHAN, EDWARD (d. 1661 ), Master of the Bench of the Inner
Temple.......... 8
VAUGHAN, HENRY ( 1621-95) ; poet..... 26
VAUGHAN, JOHN ( 1663-1722), Derllys Court........... 20
Vaughan’s of Tre-cwn.............. 29
Vaughans – Derllys Court Merthyr Carmarthenshire..................... 20
Vaughans – Derwydd Llandybie..... 20
Vaughans – Marches... 7, 43
Vaughan"s Cove 22
Vaughans of PONTFAEN. 5
Vaughans of Bredwardine.. 4
Vaughans of Caer-Gai................. 9
Vaughans of Cathedine..... 27
Vaughans of Clyro Radnershire.... 4
Vaughans of Coedkernew. 27
Vaughans of Conway....... 32
Vaughans of Cwmgwili and Pen-y-banc.. 4
Vaughans of Derllys Court 20
Vaughans of Dolgwn Pencarreg..... 20
Vaughans of Dunraven – see Bredwardine.. 5
Vaughans of Dyffryn Achddu....................... 6
Vaughans of Gelli Gatti.............. 6
Vaughans of Gelli-gaer.............. 27
Vaughans of Gelli-goch............. 29
Vaughans of Hengwrt....... 29
Vaughans of Hergest........ 4
Vaughans of Llanelli......... 29
Vaughans of Llether Cadfan........... 6
Vaughans of Merioneth.... 11
Vaughans of Merthyr Tydfil..................... 27
Vaughans of Moccas......... 4
Vaughans of Nant-Gwyn.......... 30
Vaughans of Pont-faen..... 3
Vaughans of Shropshire 10
Vaughans of St Issels ( now Saunderfoot) Pembrokeshire 43
Vaughans of Tregunter... 23
Vaughans of Trimsaran.... 17
Vaughans of TRIMSARAN (PLAS), Pembrey...... 27
Vaughans of Tyle Glas.............. 7
Vaughans of Whitland...... 29
Vaughans settled at Gelligatty....... 6
Vaughans, Earls of Carbery........ 15
Vicar of Upchurch, Kent ( 1642... 9
viscount Lisburne, Co. Antrim.. 10
W. D. Leathart. 32
Wales and the Marches in 1467..................... 24
wall tablets to the Vaughans of Trimsaran.... 17
Walter Vaughan. 4
Walter de Seys. 39
Walter Devereux 24
Walter Fychan of Golden Grove 17
Walter Seis....... 42
Walter Seys.. 3, 42
WALTER SEYS 3
Walter Vaghan.. 45
Walter Vaughan 14, 17, 18
Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove 18, 19, 20, 21
Walter Vaughan of Llanelly........ 18
Walter Vaughan of Pembrey Court........... 28
Walter Vaughan was the heir... 8
Walter Vaughan’s heir................. 4
Walter Vaughan’s second son..... 4
wardship of Joan and Elizabeth, sisters and co-heirs Henry Myle of
Newcourt..... 23
was Member of Parliament for Carmarthen.. 14
was Roger Vaughan..................... 23
Watkin Vaughan. 3, 4, 7, 23
Watkin Vaughan of Bredwardine....................... 7
Watkin Vaughan of Moccas and Bredwardine 4
Watkin Vaughan, 7
Watkin, Vaughan heir of Bredwardine.. 3
Wellington Herefordshire 13
Welsh Bicknor. 13
Welsh circulating schools......... 20
welsh fortified manor house 23
West Indies...... 10
Westminster courts....................... 9
White Book of Hergest.......... 7
White Peyton. 23
widow of Roger Vaughan of Clyro............. 7
widow of Sir James Berkeley, heiress of Tretower. 24
widow of Sir Thomas Browne..................... 25
wife of Humphrey Kynaston..... 24
wife of Richard Duke of York. 19
William............. 11
William ap Jenkin..................... 13
William ap Jenkin alias Herbert lord of Wern-ddu Monmouthshire..................... 13
William David Vaghan,........ 44
William Gwyn Vaughan of Trebarried.... 8
William Hatclyf, physician to Henry VI,.... 25
William Herbert Earl of Pembroke....................... 4
William Herbert, earl of Pembroke..................... 24
William Maurice of Cefn-y-braich 30
William Michael Thomas John Vaughan....... 13
William Morgan 31
William Nicholson..................... 15
William Owen of Porkington... 12
William Powell of Brecs............ 28
William Powell of Welshpool... 12
William Price, rector of Dolgelley..... 30
William Vaghan ap Guilim ap Rosser.......... 44
William Vaghan ap Guilim Philip 44
William Vaghan of Talgarth....... 46
William Vaughan 9, 11, 13, 15, 23
William Vaughan of Corsygedol..................... 11
WILLIAM VAUGHAN (1575-164I ) author and colonial
pioneer,..................... 21
William Vaughan of Corsygedol.. 11
William Vaughan of Letheryclren..................... 28
William Vaughan of Rhydhelig 3
William Vaughan of Tretower 23
William Williams 1785............. 15
Williamses of Marl..................... 10
WilliamWynne of Glyn, Merioneth....................... 9
Wilmot Vaughan 10
Wilmot Vaughan lst earl of Lisburne.... 23
Wilmot Vaughan, created earl of Lisburne....... 10
Wilmot Vaughan, the third viscount....... 10
Windsor castle. 10
writs of `latitat".. 9
Wye................. 12
Wynnes of Gwydir..................... 30
Wynns of Garth in Guilsfield..... 33
X ref also Vaughan Family of Courtfield Herefordshire. 5
Y Cwrt............. 17
Ynyr Vaughan.. 30
Yorkist............. 24
Yorkists....... 7, 11
Young Pretender..................... 13
younger son of John Vaughan of Golden Grove 22
younger son of Robert ap Rhys..................... 10
Ysbyty Ifan..... 10
Ysbyty Ifan..... 10
Ystradffin......... 28
[1]Close Roll 18 Edward II m.6.
[2]Brut Y Tywyogyon, Thomas Jones, University of
[3]Ann. Paul., pp 317-18
[4]Brut.y Saesson
[5]The armies of