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ROBINSON
family Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt,
useful to Owen Wynn of Gwydir by reminding the dying archbishop John Williams, of a promised legacy to his niece Grace, Wynn's wife. JOHN ROBINSON (1617 - 1681),
royalist
commander Military Royalty and Society The eldest son of the above William Robinson. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1634 (26 September) and Gray's Inn in 1637 (23 December). After service in Ireland he was commissioned as
RUMSEY, WALTER
(1584 - 1660), judge
Parliament for Monmouthshire in the Short Parliament, 1640. He was a
royalist
, was imprisoned when Hereford city fell in December 1645, and was deprived of his judgeship in 1647. In 1660 he was made Keeper of the Seals in his former circuit, but died before the end of that year, and was buried in the family vault at Llanover. He made hobbies of music, the grafting of trees, and the construction of
SALUSBURY
family Rug, Bachymbyd,
the defender of Denbigh castle, was a staunch
royalist
like his father, and was nominated a Knight of the Royal Oak in 1660. His only surviving child, JANE SALUSBURY, heiress to Bachymbyd, carried that estate in marriage in 1670 to Walter Bagot, eldest son and heir and successor to Sir Edward Bagot, 2nd bt., of Blithfield, Staffordshire. Jane's cousin, William Salusbury of Rug, foreseeing that this
SIDNEY, Sir HENRY
(1529 - 1586) Penshurst, Kent, president of Wales
(1625) for the county; and the estate was inherited by Leicester's descendants, of whom his grandson, the well-known historical figure, ALGERNON SIDNEY (1622 - 1683) was elected on 17 July 1646, to replace the
Royalist
member for Cardiff (slain at Edgehill), and sat on several Glamorgan county committees. Finally Sir Henry's daughter MARY SIDNEY (1561 - 1621) married Henry Herbert, 2nd earl of
TREVOR
family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde,
constitutional safeguards and supported the offer of the crown to Cromwell), and on several county committees from 1657. He supported Richard Cromwell, but on his abdication backed up Monck and sat on his Council of State (21 February 1660); in the Convention elections, however, Flintshire turned him down (despite his father's efforts on his behalf) for an uncompromising
royalist
, and to ' avoid a contest with
VAUGHAN
family Golden Grove,
Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire, 1624-9, and admitted to Gray's Inn in February 1637/8. In March 1642 the House of Commons nominated him lord-lieutenant of the militia, to be raised in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire; but on the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed by the king to the command of the
Royalist
Association of the three western counties. The House of Commons, therefore
VAUGHAN, HENRY
(1621 - 1695), poet
and for a time acted as secretary to judge Sir Marmaduke Lloyd. There is reason to think that he then fought for the king. He is known to have returned home by 1647. About 1650 he was converted to a religious life under the influence of George Herbert. This inclination was reinforced by the death of his brother William; his own illness intensified Vaughan's gravity. As an ardent
Royalist
he was
VAUGHAN, ROWLAND
(c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist
of Merioneth in 1613/4 and 1620/1, he was appointed sheriff in 1642/3. He was a staunch
Royalist
and it is said that he fought as a captain at the battle of Naseby. Englynion by William Phylip show that he certainly took some active part in the Civil War (Peniarth MS 115) and Caer-gai was burnt down by Cromwell's soldiers on their way from Montgomeryshire in 1645. Vaughan himself was imprisoned at
WHITE, JOHN
(1590 - 1645), Puritan
to the Bar on 19 June 1618 (Bencher, 1641). In 1625 he and eleven others raised a fund to buy impropriated tithes in order to make provision for a preaching ministry, but the funds were confiscated by order of the court of Exchequer. White became Member of Parliament for Southwark in 1640. In 1642 he became the leading member of the Committee for Plundered Ministers which ejected
royalist
clergymen
WILLIAMS, JOHN
(1582 - 1650), dean of Westminster, lord keeper of the great seal, archbishop of York
. At his own cost he repaired and fortified Conway castle, holding the king's written assurance that it should remain in his custody until his outlay was repaid. But owing to his unpalatable advice his influence with the king was waning; and in May 1645 he was unceremoniously turned out of Conway castle by the
Royalist
, Sir John Owen of Clenennau. Convinced that the king's cause was lost, and nursing
WILLIAMS, Sir TREVOR
(c. 1623 - 1692) Llangibby, politician
his estate was, however, reversed on appeal to the barons of the Exchequer, and he himself bought sequestered
Royalist
lands in Cardiff and S. Mellons in 1650, and was reconciled to the Protectorate even to the extent of abandoning for a time his title of baronet (1657); but he bore no public office till, on the eve of the Restoration, he sat on the county assessment and militia committees (January
WILSON, JOHN
(1626 - c.1695/6), playwright
christened at S. Stephen's, Walbrook, 27 December 1626, the eldest son of Aaron and Marie Wilson. AARON WILSON was born at Carmarthen in 1586, admitted to Queen's College, Oxford, 1601, graduated in 1611, and was collated to S. Stephen's, Walbrook, in 1625. A forthright
Royalist
, he came into collision with the people of Plymouth when appointed archdeacon of Exeter and vicar of Plymouth in 1633/4
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