INTRODUCTION 



OF Rowland Vaughan, author of the following 

 pamphlet, so little is known, except what he 

 himself tells us, that an introductory sketch 

 of even a few pages is a matter of some diffi- 

 culty. The second son of Watkyn Vaughan 

 of Bredwardyne, County Hereford, he was in- 

 tended for Court life, his first-cousin, Rowland 

 Vaughan of Porthamel (afterwards M.P. for 

 Breconshire), being Groom of the Chambers 

 to Queen Elizabeth, and his grand-aunt, Dame 

 Blanche Parry, her great friend and chief 

 Bedchamber-woman ; but, as he himself tells 

 us, " his spirit was too tender to endure the 

 bitternesse" of Dame Blanche's "humor," 

 and after some years spent in the greatness 

 and glory of Court, he was "forced" by the 

 same old relative's " careful, though crabbed, 

 authority" into the Irish wars probably 

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