Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HARLEY family (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore committee for the sequestration of royalist estates. He thus became a mark for royalist attack; in his absence in London, Brampton Bryan was twice besieged; for six weeks, unsuccessfully, in 1643, when it was defended by lady Harley, and then (after her death) in 1644; it fell, and the castle (as well as that of Wigmore) was burnt. However, Harley, like other Presbyterians, could not go the whole way with
HERBERT family influence in South Wales could no longer compete with that of Catholic and Royalist Raglan. He died 23 January 1650. His younger son WILLIAM sat for Monmouthshire in the Long Parliament and fought for the king. After him the Welsh connection grew more tenuous still. His son PHILIP HERBERT, 5th earl Pembroke (1619 - 1669) sat as lord Herbert for Glamorgan in the Long Parliament, following his father's
HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury earliest autobiographies in the English language. In 1619 he was appointed English ambassador at Paris and lived there in great state until his dismissal in 1624. Created lord Herbert of Cherbury in 1629, he seems to have been disappointed by the rewards which followed his services to the Crown. In the Civil War he remained neutral and refused repeated invitations to join the Royalist cause. His castle
HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648 - 1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist Born 24 November 1648, eldest son of Richard Humphreys, Hendre, Penrhyndeudraeth (a Royalist officer) and Margaret, daughter of Robert Wynne of Cesailgyfarch, Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Oswestry and Bangor grammar schools and afterwards at Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1669, M.A. 1672, was elected a Fellow 1672-3, B.D. 1679, and D.D. 1682. Ordained (by a
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman prominent family of courtiers, his mother had been a great favourite of George III and wet nurse to the Prince of Wales. Edward had divided his life between the Buffs and serving as Equerry to the Prince of Wales, later George IV. His wife, Louisa, was the widow of his cousin Count Louis de Saumaise, a proud descendent of the distinguished classical scholar Claude Saumaise, whose royalist tract in defence
JENKINS, Sir LEOLINE (1625 - 1685), civil lawyer, diplomat, benefactor of Jesus College, Oxford settled in a house which received the name of the ' Little Welsh Hall.' Being suspected on account of his Royalist connections, he fled to the Continent, taking his pupils with him. While abroad he laid the foundation of his knowledge of the Civil Law which was to qualify him for his public career. With the Restoration Jenkins returned to Jesus College and was made a Fellow. Upon Mansell's retirement in
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' Ireland (19 November 1651), having borne eight children, of whom only one survived; and early in 1656 he married Katherine Whetstone (born 1606), sister of Oliver Cromwell and widow of a Roundhead officer (who had previously taken her with him on a Dutch campaign), but herself dubbed Royalist because she recoiled from the king's execution. (Notes and Queries, VII, ix, £303.) He settled £300 a year on
JONES, PHILIP (1618 - 1674), colonel in the Parliamentary army and member of Cromwell's Second (or 'Other') House sitting in Cromwell's 'Other House' as Philip lord Jones, his doing his utmost to get the Protector to declare himself king, and his being appointed to supervise the Protector's household (it was he who organized the funeral arrangements of November 1658). After Richard Cromwell resigned, Jones became at once the target of attacks from Royalist pamphleteers and the army extremists; and he saw as soon as
JONES, Sir WILLIAM (1566 - 1640), judge royalist captain, Bartlet, swooped down from Wexford, plundered Castellmarch, and kidnapped Griffith Jones, probably as hostage for the life of Sir John Owen, who had just been condemned to death. He continued to serve on county committees (even under the Barebones régime) until the Protectorate collapsed; but he was ill-disposed towards the dominant Puritanism. By March 1660, he had become a supporter
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, of the afore-mentioned Rhys of Llanvair Castle. He served as sheriff of Monmouthshire, 1631-2, and of Glamorgan, 1638-9. He was also M.P. for Monmouthshire, 1628-9. In 1642 he was created a baronet. An ardent Royalist, he took an active part in the Civil War, and died in defence of Chepstow Castle, 25 May 1648. His son, CHARLES KEMEYS, who had been student at Jesus College, Oxford, and had been
LAUGHARNE, ROWLAND (d. 1676?), Parliamentary major-general weather, Laugharne took the offensive, and, having forced small Royalist garrisons at Stackpole and Trefloyne to surrender, he crossed Milford Haven and in a combined sea and land assault captured a fort which the Royalists were constructing at Pill (23 February 1644). He followed up this success by recovering Haverfordwest and Tenby. Carbery then withdrew from Pembrokeshire and Sir Charles Gerard was
LLOYD family Maesyfelin, Brecknock circuit, 1636-1645. Sir Marmaduke was a devoted Royalist and was taken prisoner when Hereford was captured by the Parliamentary forces on 18 December 1645. He was imprisoned and not allowed to return to Wales, but after compounding was released in 1647. His name appears, however, among a list of prisoners taken by colonel Horton after the Royalist defeat at St Fagans, 8 May 1648. He was alive in

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