INTRODUCTION 



In Rowland's day, then, the place was a 

 "faire castell." The rebuilding of 1640 was 

 not till after his death, Roger being his 

 nephew, son to his elder brother Henry 

 Vaughan of Moccas ; but two years even 

 in this "great old house" bored our hero to 

 such an extent, that he would have gone off 

 again to the wars, had not his fair kinswoman, 

 Elizabeth Vaughan, intervened, and turned his 

 thoughts towards matrimony. 



Elizabeth was daughter of the abovenamed 

 Rowland of Porthamel and Elizabeth Parry 

 of New Court, co-heiress with her sister Joan, 

 who married Rowland's father, Watkyn of 

 Bredwardine, of the New Court estates. 



The Parrys and Vaughans intermarried in 

 each generation, and the cross-relationships 

 are so puzzling, that I shall not attempt here 

 to follow up the pedigree of either family, 

 except to draw attention to the fact that they 

 were both very proud of their kinship with 

 David Gam, the hero of Agincourt, from 

 whose daughter, " Gladis de Gam," sprang the 

 Vaughans by her first marriage with Sir Roger 

 Vaughan, who was killed at Agincourt, and 

 the Pembrokes by a second marriage with Sir 

 William Herbert, father by her of the first 



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