Robert Vaughan

was born of an antient and gentile family in Merionithshire, was entred a Commoner of Oriel Coll. in the year 1612, and in that of his age 20, where passing his course in Logick and Philosophy, retired without a degree to his patrimony in the said County called Hengwrt or Hengherst near Dolgethle, became noted for his admirable skill in the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country of Wales, having had a natural genie to them, and took infinite pains in describing the Genealogies of the most antient families thereof. The things of his composition that are extant are only these.

British Antiquities revived. Oxon. 1662. qu.

Pedegree of the Earl of Carbury (Vaughan) Lord President of Wales.

Short account of the five tribes of Cambria.—These two last are printed with the first. He hath also several letters extant, ((a))((a)) In the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Ʋsher’s Life fol. p. 261.270, &c. which he formerly wrot to the learned and religious Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland: in one of which dated 14 Apr. 1651, he tells the said Primate that he had translated into the English Tongue The Annals of Wales, which he then sent to him to be perused. He died at Hengwrt before mention’d in sixteen hundred sixty and six (being then a Justice of Peace) as I have been informed by Mr. Thom. Ellis sometimes Rector of Dolgethle, 1666. and was buried in the Church of that Parish, wherein Hengwrt (said ((b))((b)) In Offic. Armorum, H. 8. fol. 32. b. to be in Kyntons land in the Lordship of Huntyndon) is situated. He left behind him a choice Library of MSS. in the British Tongue, now, as I have been informed. in the custody of Sir William Williams of Greys Inn Baronet, occasion’d by a Law sute concerning it.