Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MAURICE, Sir WILLIAM (1542 - 1622), politician monopoly of Welsh cloth sales, but upheld the rights of Convocation, the jurisdiction of the Council of Ludlow, the royal claim to purveyance and generous parliamentary subsidies. With little formal education, he was widely read in theology, law, and politics, which were well represented in his library. He was a staunch Anglican and royalist, and believed that Welsh national aspirations were best
MORGAN family Llantarnam, (12 May 1642), and renewing his commission in the Civil War, where he was captured at Hereford (18 December 1645). The Rump disallowed the baronetcy (17 February 1652), and as a Royalist in arms his estate (worth £911 a year) was sequestrated and not finally discharged (9 November 1654) till after his death (24 June 1653). His sister Winifred married Percy Enderbie, author of Cambria Triumphans. His
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, 1654 he was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire. WILLIAM MORGAN, the third son of Sir William Morgan, who was Member of Parliament for Monmouth, 1628-9, became the ancestor of the branch at Rhymney. Sir William's only child by his second wife, Sir ANTHONY MORGAN (died 1665) of Kilfigin was a prominent Royalist who fought at Edgehill. He was unable to compound for his property in May 1650
MORGAN, Sir THOMAS (1604 - 1679), soldier 1645), helped in the capture of Chepstow (October 1645) and Hereford (22 December 1645), and made several incursions into Monmouthshire, in the course of which he was able to discourage recruiting for the king and to gain new adherents for Parliament. After helping to defeat the last Royalist army in the field at Stow-on-the-wold (22 March 1646), he returned to Monmouthshire as commander-in-chief (2
MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet to assist his father on the farm. That he was well patronised by the gentry of Llansilin and district is amply proved in his poems, for time and again he acknowledges his indebtedness to Sir William Williams (1634 - 1700), Glasgoed (Speaker of the House of Commons), the Myddelton family of Chirk castle, William Owen of Brogyntyn, and others. Huw was ever an ardent churchman, and a staunch royalist
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, marriage at Cilcain, Flintshire, spending also much of his time in London; he was knighted in 1623 at the instance of the duke of Buckingham. His eldest son was Sir ROGER MOSTYN (1623/4 - 1690), knight and baronet. Although he was only 19 years old when the Civil War broke out, he soon became a captain, and, within a few months, colonel, in the Royalist forces. Charles I also appointed him governor of
MYDDELTON family Gwaenynog, . 1624 - 1663) Son of the above, left Oxford (matriculated at Oriel, 20 March 1640) in time to serve as 'liaison' between the Commons and his father's campaigning quarters on the Welsh border. In 1646 he was made governor of Chirk castle (7 March), deputy lieutenant of Denbighshire (2 July) and Member of Parliament for Flint in place of the disabled royalist member, Sir John Salusbury of Bachegraig. He
MYTTON, THOMAS (1608 - 1656) Halston,, parliamentary commander Wem (11 September 1643), Oswestry (23 June 1644) and eventually Shrewsbury (22 February 1645). On 12 May 1645 he succeeded Sir Thomas Myddelton as commander-in-chief for North Wales, with the rank of general, and after preventing the relief of Chester by defeating Sir William Vaughan near Denbigh (1 December 1645) he reduced successively the royalist garrisons of Ruthin, Caernarvon, Beaumaris
OWEN family Bodeon, Bodowen, impression that he was a stout and gallant Royalist. The two brothers were named in February 1648, as commissioners of assessment to levy money in Anglesey for the upkeep of the Parliamentary forces, but in July of the same year the two were signing the fiery proclamation preliminary to the Anglesey insurrection, and the two had to sign the disastrous articles of surrender in October; for all that, Henry
OWEN family Orielton, Haverfordwest after the Royalist defeat at Pill (on Milford Haven) in February 1644. Later he is said to have resorted to the king at Oxford and to have abandoned Pembrokeshire for Anglesey. In 1648 he is alleged to have countenanced the resistance of Poyer and Laugharne at Pembroke; but he appears to have made his peace with the victorious party and, as has been mentioned, he served as sheriff under the
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander the royalist poet Huw Morys. His marriage with Mary, widow of bishop John Hanmer, producing no heir, his estate was reunited on his death with Clenennau, inherited by Sir John's son WILLIAM OWEN (1624 - 1677), who had been with his father at the siege of Bristol; married Katherine Anwyl of Park, Meironnydd, and lived during the Interregnum on the Anwyl estate of Llanddyn. His son, Sir ROBERT OWEN
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy A family of Welsh poets who lived in Ardudwy, Meironnydd, in the 16th and 17th cents.. Their period ranges from c. 1543, in which year Siôn Phylip was probably born, to 1678, when probate was granted of the will of Phylip Siôn Phylip, one of his sons. The royalist poet, William Phylip, is usually accounted of the group. The two brothers, Siôn and Rhisiart, and Siôn's two sons, Gruffydd and Phylip

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