Welsh Journals

siderably improved. On Thursday morning, 19 January, Vaughan felt quite recovered, and having dressed with his usual care came downstairs to the drawing room. The Rev. Mr. Beynon called and noted that he appeared in tolerable health and spirits apparently very well.' At about 2 o'clock, Beynon left, as Charles Morgan, Clerk of the Peace, had arrived to pay his respects to the Lord Lieutenant. Mr. Morgan afterwards said, So far from think- ing him very unwell I thought he looked unusually well, and expressed his wish to ride out provided the weather cleared.' After some conversation, Vaughan handed him a newspaper to read while he went to a table to do some writing. Morgan sat near a window and read the columns. Suddenly the scratching of Vaughan's quill ceased, and hearing him breathe in a laboured and distressful way, Morgan looked up and said he hoped he was not unwell. Vaughan replied that he felt very faint, whereupon Morgan called a servant. Together they assisted him into his book- lined study, where, seized by a violent apoplexy, he became much convulsed and, finally, unconscious. A man was sent to Llandeilo to request Mr. Beynon's immediate return. Vaughan lingered in this pathetic state for nearly two hours, and expired at four o'clock. The agitated Beynon who had galloped headlong all the way, arrived five minutes later. Beynon there and then wrote to Cawdor at Portsea Barracks in Hampshire where he was commanding the Royal Carmarthen Fusiliers: As Mr Vaughan when in health, had repeatedly declared that he meant to leave the principal part of his property to your Lordship's youngest son, I take the earliest opportunity to com- municate this melancholy event to you, and hope your Lordship will be able to come down as soon as possible. In the mean time I shall take best care of everything Some two hours later, at 8 p.m., Beynon wrote a second letter conveying the same news to Cawdor, lest some accident should delay the earlier letter, and also wrote to Colonel W. O. Brigstocke of Blaen-pant. The Clerk of the Peace was equally quick off the mark and wrote similarly to Cawdor. On the following day, deceased's will was found, which showed that Lord Cawdor himself had inherited the Golden Grove estate. The funeral arrangements were made by the Rev. Mr. Beynon, Mr. Thomas Lewis of Llandeilo 'a solicitor of character and abilities', and the Rev. Thomas Watkins (husband of Vaughan's half-sister), with the concurrence of Lord Cawdor. The undertaker was John Voss of Swansea. The total funeral expenses came to £ 389.9.9^, which included 10 guineas for a leaden coffin, enclosed within two wooden ones costing £ 3.15.0, John Attwood's bill of £ 15.7.6 for painting escutcheons, hatchment, and other heraldic