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Vaughan and coheir of Griffith ap Jenkin of Broughton, by whom he had issue three sons and three daughters. The eldest son was David Lloyd of Leighton, ancestor of the Lloyds of Marrington, Marton, and Stockton; the second, Cadwalader, was ancestor of the Lloyds of Maesmawr; and the third, Reginald, was ancestor of the Wynnes of Garth and of the Lloyds of Broniarth and Gaervawr (Sheriffs of Montgomery, pp. 1–7, 376–425, 528–9; Pedigrees of Montgomery Families, 1888, pp. 16–18, 52, 126, 153).

[Authorities cited; College of Arms, Prothero, vii. 186, 195, and E. 6, 99; Visitation of England and Wales, iii. 1; Armorial Families, pp. 512–15; Dwnn's Visitations, i. 279, 328; Burke's Landed Gentry, s.v. ‘Lloyd of Stockton Manor;’ documents kindly lent by Henry Crampton Lloyd, esq., of Stockton Manor; Chirbury, Shropshire.] 

VAUGHAN, HENRY (1587?–1659?), royalist soldier, born probably between 1585 and 1590, was the sixth son of Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire [see under, second ]. William Vaughan (1577–1641) was his brother. He settled at Derwydd, having married Sage, the daughter of the heiress of that house, who was the first wife of John Gwyn William (cf., Heraldic Visit. i. 214, 232; Arch. Cambr. 4th ser. xii. 235, where Vaughan's brother, Walter Vaughan of Llanelly, is erroneously given as his father). He was sheriff for Carmarthenshire in 1620, and M.P. for Carmarthen from 1621 to 1629 (except for a short term in 1625, when, after a double return, he was unseated). He was again elected for the county on 26 March and 5 Nov. 1640, and was knighted at Oxford on 1 Jan. 1642–3 (, Knights, p. 200). He appears to have been a member of the committee for examining scandalous ministers, but in 1644 a petition was presented to the House of Commons by Hugh Grundy, urging his removal therefrom on the ground that he had himself placed ‘six scandalous ministers, no preachers,’ to serve ‘six parish churches with several chapels’ in Carmarthenshire which he had obtained from Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, at the rent of 750l. a year (Commons' Journals, iii. 389; Arch. Cambr. 4th ser. xii. 327). It seems to have been suggested that Vaughan had also harboured papists. He was disabled from retaining his seat in parliament on 5 Feb. 1644.

When in 1642 his nephew, Richard Vaughan, second earl of Carbery [q. v.], was given the command of the royalist forces in the counties of Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, Sir Henry, with the rank of major-general, seems to have been entrusted with plenary powers, and is said to have been ‘the instrument of much mischief’ in those counties, treating his opponents with brutality. His headquarters were at Haverfordwest, but, according to a political opponent, he precipitately abandoned that town in March 1643–4, owing to a panic caused by the stampede of a herd of frightened cattle, which were mistaken in the twilight for the parliamentary troops under Laugharne (, Civil War in Wales and the Marches, ii. 140–153; cf., Little England beyond Wales, p. 326). Vaughan fled to Carmarthen, but that town also was taken a few weeks later.

His next appearance was at the battle of Naseby on 14 June 1645, when he was taken prisoner; on the 18th he was brought before the House of Commons and committed to the Tower, where he remained till his removal to the Fleet prison on 1 Oct. 1647 (Commons Journal). There he still lay in July 1648, ‘like to be in a starvinge condicion’ (see his letter to his wife, dated 29 July, in Notices of the Stepney Family, p. 12).

On 27 April 1644 he had been ordered by the committee for compounding to pay 160l. (Cal. of Proceedings), and on 20 Aug. 1645 he was assessed at 500l., his estate being valued at 600l. a year. He was excluded from the general pardon, 13 Oct. 1648 (Cal. State Papers, Dom. s.a. p. 304; cf., IV. i. 313). This treatment, so different from that meted to the Earl of Carbery and other members of the same family, supports the view that Sir Henry was by far the most active and irreconcilable royalist among them, on which account probably he was referred to by a parliamentary writer as ‘“Act-all,” now prisoner in the Tower for all [the family?],’ brother to ‘the honest Richard (Tell-all), who hath been grievously prosecuted, imprisoned, and plundered by them all for his affection to the parliament’ (The Earle of Carberyes Pedegree, London, 1646, 4to). Vaughan, who was generally known as ‘Sir Harry,’ is also described thus in a cavalier song of 1647 (, Civil War in Herefordshire, ii. 30): Sir Harry Vaughan looks as grave As any beard can make him. Those [who] come poore prisoners to see Doe for our Patriarke take him. Old Harry is a right true blue, As valiant as Pendraggon, And would be loyall to his king Had King Charles ne'er a rag on. Vaughan probably survived till close upon the Restoration, his release having