INTRODUCTION 



Leigh, and formerly married to Rowland 

 Vaughan, Esquire, deceased." 



Rowland had three children. One son, 

 John, who died sans issue, I believe, before 

 his father he was alive and of age in 1 609 

 and two daughters. Jane, who had New 

 Court, married her kinsman, Stephen Parry 

 of Moorhampton, who exchanged the com- 

 bined properties for that of Arkeston, in the 

 parish of Kingston, Co. Hereford. Blanche 

 married Epiphany Haworth, and had the 

 White House, where her father had always 

 lived. This was occupied by descendants 

 of hers till about fifty years ago, when it 

 changed hands. Some chairs, which had 

 belonged to Queen Elizabeth, and which she 

 is said to have given to Henry Parry of New 

 Court, Rowland's grandfather ; and a portrait 

 of a lady in Welsh dress, bearing inscription, 

 "Blanche Parry, 1590," were bought at the 

 sale by, and still belong to, Dr. Jenkins of 

 the Copelands, Hereford. As to the original 

 of the portrait, the greatest authorities dis- 

 agree. It was long thought to be the cele- 

 brated lady of the Bedchamber, but as she 

 died very old, and blind, in 1589, that is 

 impossible. Mr. Parry of Harewood con- 

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