Welsh Journals

rctafllfljgia (ItolrrOTk FOURTH SERIES.—No. XXI. JANUARY, 1875. THE VAUGHANS OF GOES Y GEDOL. The following history of the family of Vaughan of Cors y Gedol is from a transcript made by the late Miss Angharad Lloyd, of a MS. in the library at Mostyn, where there appear to be two copies of it. I have added dates, and other notes, which may make this curious tract the more interesting to the genealogist. 1874. W. W. E. W. The purport of this small tract is to give a short his¬ tory of the family of Cors y Gedol down to the present possessor, William Vaughan (the fourth of that name), living in 1770; and as, in all appearance, the name will soon be extinct, he and his brother, Evan Lloyd Vaugharj,1 being far advanced in years, and Evan un¬ married, this is intended as a small monumental and general inscription of the family, and for the amuse¬ ment of any of those of a collateral branch who may inhabit or possess the old house, and take delight in a retrospect of what it was. Collected by me, William Vychan, in 1770, aged sixty-three.2 I shall begin this short history of the family of Cors y Gedol from a fair MS. of Robert Vychan of Hengwrt, 1 This Evan Lloyd Vaughan was a member of the infamous " Hell Fire Club," of which there is a notice in the Adventures of a Guinea. He died M.P. for the county of Merioneth, 4 Dec, 1791. 2 Mr. Vaughan spells the name " Vychan" throughout the MS., almost without exception. The transcriber has not done so. 4th ser., vol. vi. 1