INTRODUCTION 



Earl of Pembroke. The Vaughans and 

 Pembrokes fought side by side in many a 

 fight, and the dedication of Rowland's book 

 to the then Earl show that the feeling of 

 kinship had survived the wear and tear of 

 nearly two hundred years. 



Rowland Vaughan of Porthamel and his 

 wife, Elizabeth Parry, had two daughters 

 (their son died unmarried in 1582), Eliza- 

 beth, who married our hero, and Katherine, 

 who married Sir Robert Knollys, and so be- 

 came daughter-in-law to dear old Sir Francis 

 Knollys, whose wife, Katherine Carey, was 

 Queen Elizabeth's first-cousin. 



The fair and virtuous Elizabeth Vaughan 

 was "a loving wife," according to her hus- 

 band, but apparently one who would stand 

 no nonsense. She soon put a stop to his 

 roystering with old comrades, and bade him 

 employ himself at home, by looking after her 

 property, she " being seized of a mannor and 

 overshott mill." The manor was New Court. 

 An apparent disagreeable with the miller 

 made Rowland wish to get rid of his respon- 

 sibility, but madam overruled him, and he 

 " obeyed her will, as many doe, and many 

 miseries do ensue thereby." And so, "in the 



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