INTRODUCTION 



crined or, and about each neck a serpent 

 entwined vert. This coat was adopted on 

 account of the legend that Moredig Warwyn, 

 one of their ancestors, was born with a snake 

 round his neck. The Bredwardine Vaughans 

 always bore the chevron, as appears in the 

 visitation of Herefordshire of 1619, from 

 which the York herald has copied this coat 

 for me. 



There is a legend that our Rowland is 

 buried at West Ham, but there are no regis- 

 ters there prior to 1653, and there is no trace 

 of a tomb ; but I found the inquisition of a 

 certain Rowland Vaughan, a city knight, who 

 died in 1612, and I consider he was probably 

 buried in the old church, not our Hereford- 

 shire Rowland ; the fact that this city man 

 had also a wife Elizabeth, and left no male 

 heir, is quite enough to account for the 

 story. 



Elizabeth Vaughan re-married a certain 

 Richard Leighton, and is buried at Vow- 

 church. The date on the tomb is 1640, 

 but it is so rudely cut that it may have been 

 added later, and be quite incorrect. The in- 

 scription runs thus : "I. H. S. Here lieth 

 the body of Eliza Leighton, wife to Richard 

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