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 of Penn, Buckinghamshire, whom he married on 5 Aug. 1662 (Penn register), he was father of George Lluelyn (1668–1739), page of the backstairs to Charles II, who was a friend of Purcell, and contributor to the second edition of ‘Orpheus Britannicus.’ He was instituted rector of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, in 1705, was distinguished for musical and topiarian tastes, and obtained, says Burney, the reputation of ‘a Jacobitical, musical, mad Welsh parson’ (, Hist. of Music, 1789, iii. 495 n.) Another son, Richard, was a student at the Inner Temple in 1693 (, Alumni Westm. p. 215;, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714).

Besides the ‘Men Miracles,’ Lluelyn wrote: 1. ‘Verses on the Return of King Charles II, James, Duke of York, and Henry, Duke of Gloucester,’ London, 1660, fol. 2. ‘Elegy on the Death of Henry, Duke of Gloucester,’ London, 1660, fol. 3. ‘Wickham Wakened; or the Quaker's Madrigall in Rhime Doggrel,’ 1672, 4to. A diatribe against a rival practitioner of Wycombe, who was a quaker. Lluelyn was also, like his friend Edward Gray, a contributor to ‘Musarum Oxoniensium Charisteria,’ 4to, 1638 (, Restituta, i. 146). There is a copy of verses by him prefixed to Cartwright's ‘Plays and Poems,’ 1651, and he seems to have taken a leading part in the presentation of plays at Christ Church, as in the minor poems appended to his ‘Men Miracles’ (p. 80) is one addressed ‘to Dr. F[ell], Deane of Ch. Ch. … when I presented him a Play.’ Another poem, probably written about 1640 and published with ‘Men Miracles,’ is addressed to Lord B. on presenting him with a play; and when Charles II visited Oxford in July 1661 a play was made by ‘Dr. Llewellyn’ (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1661).

[Materials kindly furnished by Colonel W. R. Lluellyn; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 42–4, and Fasti, i. 114; Life and Times of Wood (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), p. 324; Wood's Colleges and Halls, ed. Gutch, p. 672; Corser's Collect. pt. viii. p. 365; Hazlitt's Handbook, p. 338; Add. MS. 24487, f. 6 (Hunter's Chorus Vatum); Winstanley's Lives, 1687, p. 201; Munk's Coll. of Physicians, i. 293–4; Parker's Hist. of Wycombe, 1878, p. 60; Hist. of Shrewsbury, 1825, ii. 388; Lluelyn's works in Brit. Mus.] 