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 APPENDIX G 609 was apprenticed to a dry-salter of London, named aughan, " Colonel Vaughan's brother," but when his time was " near or newly out, betook himself to be a soldier, instead ot setting up his trade." He was a quarter- master in the Pari, army; Capt. in Col. Harley's regt., in the "New Model," 1 5 Feb. i 644/5 '■> '^''"^ ^°'- '^^' Cromwell's own regt. of " Ironsides " at the battle of Dunbar, 3 Sep. 1650. He was one of the Judges app. for the King's trial, 6 Jan. 1648/9, attended every sitting but five, and signed the death-warrant. Commissioner of the High Court of Justice 21 Nov. 1653. On 12 Dec. 1653 he forcibly ejected the remnant of the "Barebones" Parl.(^) M.P. for Great Yarmouth 6 July 1654, and for Southants 1656-57. " Maior-General of the Militia" for Sussex, Bedford, and Southants, 9 Aug. 1655. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as " William Lord Goffe," 20 Jan. i 657/8 ; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, and signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658. A warrant was issued for his arrest, 16 Apr. 1660, and he was excepted from the Act of Indemnity, 29 Aug. 1660, but he escaped with his father-in-law; landed at Boston, ('') Mass., 27 July 1660; removed to New Haven, 7 Mar. 1 660/1; and to Hadley, Mass., 13 Oct. 1664, where he resided till his death. He »i. Frances,(°) da. of Major Gen. Edward Whalley, by his ist wife, Judith, da. of John Duffell, of Rochester. He d. in 1679, and was /?ur. at Hadlev afsd., aged about 70. HAMPDEN [46] Richard Hampden, C) 2nd but ist surv. s. of John H., "the Patriot," of Great Hampden, Bucks (bur. there 25 June 1643), by his ist wife, Elizabeth, only da. and h. of Edmund Symeon, of Pyrton, co. Oxford. includes an item of £1 6s. 6d., expended on June ist, " when Lift. Col. GofFe came to towne." A Mr. GofFe, presumably the Regicide's father, was either incumbent or lecturer at St. Mary's, Haverfordwest, in 1614, 161 5, and 1628. {Eng. Hist. Revinu, 1892, p. 718). (') " Coll. Goffe and Lieut. Coll. White came into the House, and desired them that were there to come out. Some answered, they were there by a call from the generall, and would not come out by their desire. . . . They returned noe answer, but feched two files of musquetiers and did as good as force them out; amongst whom I was an unworthy one." (Letter from Bussy Mansell, in Thurloe's Statt Papers, vol. i, p. 637). (•*) Col. John Crown, a royalist, deposed " that while he was at Boston soon after the King's restoration, Goffe and Whalley landed there, and were conducted to the house of John Endicott, the Governor, who it was reported embraced them, bade them welcome to New England, and wished more such good men as they would come over. . . . They then resided in Cambridge [about four miles from Boston], where they were held in exceeding great esteem for their piety and parts." {Cal. Statt Papers, Colonial Ser., 1661-68, p. 54). {^) A letter from her (in reply to one written by her husband, 29 May 1 662) is printed in Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts, vol. i, p. 532. [^) He bore for arms: Silver a saltire Gules between four eagles Azure. 77