Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, PHILIP (1594 - 1646), O.S.B. . For the following twenty years he was chaplain to various families in Devon and Somerset until the Civil War broke out. After serving as a chaplain to Royalist troops, he tried to make his way to Monmouthshire in 1646. He was arrested off the Mumbles on 22 February 1646 by capt. Crowther, who kept him confined in his ship for two months in Penarth Roads and then sent him by sea to London. On 16 June
POWELL, RICE (fl. 1641-1665), colonel in the Parliamentary army Pembroke. Powell joined John Poyer and Rowland Laugharne and took part with them in the defence of Pembroke and the offensive actions in the county and beyond. Laugharne appointed him governor of Cardigan castle when it was captured on 29 December 1644 and he successfully defended it in the following month against a Royalist assault directed by Sir Charles Gerard. In April 1646 he became governor of
POWELL, VAVASOR (1617 - 1670), Puritan divine to his arrest on 21 December Released on 24 December, he fled to Wales in January 1654 to organize opposition to Cromwell, but put aside his differences to quell a Royalist rising in 1655 (A true and full Relation of the great Rising, 1655, 4). His opposition continued in the protest called 'A Word for God,' presented in November 1655 and signed by 322 people, which alienated many Welsh Puritans as
POYER, JOHN (d. 1649) Pembroke, mayor the Civil War, he organized the defence of Pembroke town and castle, forcibly retaining the office of mayor and becoming governor of the castle. He was joined by Rowland Laugharne and Rice Powell, and together with them vigorously maintained the Parliamentary cause. When the Royalist commander in west Wales, Richard Vaughan, 2nd earl of Carbery, entered Pembrokeshire in August 1643, he failed to
PRICE family Rhiwlas, St Asaph. This John Price was succeeded by his eldest son, JOHN PRICE II (died 1629) (ROBERT PRICE, vicar of Towyn, chancellor of Bangor, etc., was a brother to John Price II). The wife of John Price II was Elinor, daughter of Sir William Jones, Castellmarch, Caernarfonshire, and the eldest son of the marriage was WILLIAM PRICE (1619 - 1691), Royalist colonel and Member of Parliament Military
PRICE, JOHN (1600? - 1676), classical scholar and divine Ireland with the earl of Strafford, and became the friend of archbishop Ussher. During the Civil War he wrote some pamphlets, the titles of which are not now known, in the Royalist interest, and in consequence suffered imprisonment. After his release he returned to the Continent, and about 1652 settled at Florence, where the grand duke Ferdinand II made him his keeper of medals and afterwards gave him
PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904 - 1980), novelist and poet , along with many of his articles, reflect a preoccupation with the theme of exile; the fact that he spent over half his life in London, far away from his Welsh roots, was a constant source of guilt but also the stimulus for much of his literary work. It is also true that as a Tory, royalist and an Anglican he stood outside the predominantly Nonconformist and nationalist Welsh literary establishment of
PRYCE family Newtown Hall, 1640 and 1654, though his loyalty to both sides was suspect. He was succeeded in 1657 by his second (but eldest surviving) son MATTHEW (died 1674), a zealous Royalist and churchman, who was sheriff in 1659/60; his son JOHN, 3rd baronet, died s.p., and was succeeded by his brother, Sir VAUGHAN PRYCE, sheriff in 1709. He died 30 April 1720. Sir JOHN PRYCE, 5th baronet (sheriff, 1748), son of Sir
PUGH family Mathafarn, of Steward of Cyfeiliog, served as a magistrate, and in 1609 and 1626 was sheriff of Montgomeryshire, and in 1631 sheriff of Merioneth. He was a staunch Royalist, and in 1644 his house was burnt down by Parliamentary soldiers. He died 26 December 1644, and was buried at Conway. His first wife was a daughter of Sir Richard Pryse, Gogerddan. His grandson, JOHN PUGH, was also a barrister, and was lord
RAVENSCROFT family Ravenscroft, P. Fadog, iii, 181). Robert's son was colonel THOMAS RAVENSCROFT, who acquired some notoriety in the Civil War. Though his wife was a daughter of that zealous Royalist William Salusbury of Rug, he sided with the Parliamentarians, and in November 1643 handed over to them the castle of Hawarden - ' betrayed by one Ravenscroft ', as archbishob John Williams scornfully describes the surrender (J. R
ROBERTS, MICHAEL (d. 1679), principal of Jesus College, Oxford Royalist rebels in the insurrection of Anglesey in 1648. However, when the Parliamentary Visitors came to Oxford in that year and turned out the principal of Jesus, Michael Roberts was appointed in his stead, and was made D.D. under the new order (1649). For nine years the college became a hornet's nest. The dormant Royalists among the Fellows looked upon him as a traitor to their cause; the Puritan
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1585 - 1665), bishop of Bangor by the Commons, with the bishops of S. Asaph, Llandaff, and nine others, 4 August 1641, Arthur Trevor (see Trevor family of Brynkynallt) being assigned as one of their counsel (16 November); but through delaying tactics and pressure of other business the case fizzled out in December. During the Civil War he sheltered at Bangor the violently royalist bishop of Rochester, John Warner. Deprived of his

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