GRIFFITH, William II, of Caernarvon.

Little has been ascertained about Griffith in the Elizabethan period. He is not mentioned by name in the parliamentary journals, but as knight for Caernarvonshire he may have attended the following committees: enclosures (5 Nov.), the poor law (5, 22 Nov.), armour and weapons (8 Nov.), the penal laws (8 Nov.), monopolies (10 Nov.), the subsidy (15 Nov.) and Newport bridge (29 Nov.). He was certainly alive in 1623, and probably still alive two years later.Griffith, Peds. 125; 171, 185, 202; D’Ewes, 552, 553, 555, 557, 561, 565; Harl. 1947, f. 23; NLW, Cal. Wynn Pprs. pp. 161, 173, 215.