Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer Newydd estate; and his grandson HENRY BAYLY took the name and arms of Paget (as 9th baron), and was the father of the 1st marquis of Anglesey. THOMAS BAYLY (1608 - c. 1657) The bishop's son had a career both as Protestant and Roman Catholic. He was a staunch Royalist, and happened to be at Raglan castle when Charles I was entertained there after Naseby, and is credited with drawing up the articles of
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician in Crwydro'r cyfandir (1936), an account of a journey through France, Italy and Switzerland. During his stay in Paris he came to know Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras and other leaders of the reactionary and royalist movement known as L'Action Française, and they had a profound influence on his thinking. He read the movement's journal regularly on his visits to France. One reason for Bebb's devotion
BIDWELL, MORRIS, Puritan preacher, under the Commonwealth renewed in 1653, he was appointed to do definite pastoral work at S. Mary's in Swansea. There in 1658 happened the fierce altercation with the Quaker John ap John who asked whether Bidwell was a true minister of Christ, and was struck in the face instead of getting an answer. He died before 1660, but a Royalist named Richard Seys had such an objection to his bones resting in the chancel of S. Mary's
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, enter the English College (1638). In 1618 Gwynne inherited the fortune of Hugh Owen, who had disinherited the heir at law, John Owen the epigrammatist (1560? - 1622), because his works were on the papal Index. Gwynne erected a tablet to Owen's memory in the English College at Rome (text in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1853, 130-1). JOHN BODVEL (1617 - 1663), Royalist colonel Military He was the son and
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, was made Royalist governor of Shrewsbury (18 August 1644). He was captured in the battle of Montgomery (17 September 1644), but was released and did further service in the Royalist cause in North Wales in 1645. WILLIAM BROUGHTON, third son of Morgan Broughton, was also a captain in the Royal army. Sir EDWARD BROUGHTON (died 1665), heir of the above Sir Edward, fought as a lieutenant on the king's
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard staunch Royalist. All writers have thought that this was by the Margam bard, but it must be conceded that the style is rather different from that of the poems which are in ' Llyfr Hir Llanharan ' and in Llanover B. 20. The same manuscript has a number of cwndidau which are attributed to the poet; some of this material is contained in ' Caniadau Gwent a Morganwg,' an unpublished work by L. J. Hopkin
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, . A staunch Royalist, he was besieged in his house at Gwysaney, 12 April 1645, by Sir William Brereton's forces. The front door which he put up in 1640 still bears the mark of the siege. He was imprisoned in 1658, in Chester castle whence he was released by an order signed by Cromwell, on 30 June, and which is still extant among the papers kept at Gwysaney. He was high sheriff for Flintshire, in
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, Parliament in 1647. In September 1659 he took part in Booth's rebellion and helped to hold Chirk castle for Charles II. Two other members of the family took part in the attempt to surprise Denbigh and Ruthin castles for the king in May and July, 1648, and another manufactured saltpetre for the county Royalist forces under authority of the local commissioners of array (Cal. Cttee. for Compounding, iii, 1718
EDWARDS family Stansty, Edwards, held the recordership of the lordship of Chirk under Sir Thomas Myddelton, but is said to have fought for Charles I, and certainly married the widow of a Lancashire Royalist (daughter of Sir Thomas Powell of Horsley), for whose claims on her first husband's estate (put up for sale by the Commonwealth) John Jones the regicide himself put in a word, describing his nephew-by-marriage as 'of an
ELLICE, ROBERT, Royalist soldier January 1643 (on royal orders) he seized Chirk castle, the seat of the Roundhead Sir Thomas Myddelton and commanded 600 Welsh Royalist infantry at Middlewich, Cheshire (March 1643), where they were defeated and Ellice captured. Released in September 1643, he was given command for the king over Denbighshire and Flintshire with 1,200 men, at the head of whom he took part in operations round Wem (March
GRIFFITH family Garn, Plasnewydd, , Llansantffraid, Denbighshire. Thereafter there is a succession of men who served their county or their country in various ways. EDWARD GRIFFITH (1589 - 1671?), grandson of Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan, was a Royalist; he was lieutenant colonel of the Denbigh militia, and one of the defenders of Denbigh castle during the civil war. After the Restoration he became clerk to the court of great sessions for
GRIFFITH, JOHN (fl. 1649-1669) Llanddyfnan, squire poet cywyddau is to be found among the Mostyn, Llanstephan and Henblas manuscripts in the National Library of Wales and the additional manuscripts in the British Museum. A staunch Churchman and Royalist, he was strongly antagonistic to the Puritan régime, as is evident from many of his compositions in the free metres. His elegies on Edward Wynne of Bodewryd and Mrs. Lumley Lloyd of Lligwy, both dated 1669

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