MORGAN, William II (c.1640-80), of Tredegar, Bassaleg, Mon.

Family and Education

b. c. 1640, 1st s. of Thomas Morgan* of Machen and Tredegar and 2nd w. Elizabeth. educ. matric. Queen’s, Oxf. 23 July 1656; G. Inn 27 Apr. 1658.Al. Ox.; G. Inn Admiss. 285. m. (1) 4 Nov. 1661 (with £1,000), Blanche (d. 23 Mar. 1673), da. of William Morgan* of Y Dderw, Brec., h. of her bro. William, 5s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da.; (2) 4 Dec. 1675, Elizabeth, da. of William Lewis† of Bletchington, Oxon., coh. of her bro. Edward†, wid. of Sir Francis Dayrell of Castle Camps, Cambs., s.p.NLW, Tredegar Estate 74/11, 109/1-2, 123/65-6, 124/25; H.C. Maxwell-Lyte, Hist. Notes on Some Som. Manors (1931), 60; Bradney, Hist. Mon. v (Pbns. S. Wales Rec. Soc. viii), 70-1; Clark, Limbus Patrum, 51, 312; St Helen Bishopsgate Par. Reg. (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxxi), 161. suc. fa. 13 May 1664. d. 28 Apr. 1680.Clark, Limbus Patrum, 312.

Offices Held

Local: commr. sewers, Mon. 25 Feb. 1659, 22 Aug. 1660, 26 Aug. 1669;C181/6, p. 347; C181/7, pp. 35, 505. Glos. 7 Nov. 1671;C181/7, p. 599. assessment, Mon. 26 Jan., 1 June 1660,A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679; Glos. Dec. 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;SR. militia, Mon. 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O. poll tax, 1660.SR. J.p. Mar. 1660 – d.; Glos. Feb. 1665–d.C231/7, p. 253. Dep. lt. Mon. 10 Aug. 1660–d.NLW, Tredegar Estate 47/9; SP29/11/173, f. 214. Capt. militia ft. 30 Nov. 1660–?NLW, Tredegar Estate 102/6. Commr. subsidy, 1663;SR. impositions on wines, Glos., Herefs., Mon. and S. Wales 20 June 1668;C181/7, p. 466. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 3 Feb. 1670–?d.;C181/7, pp. 533, 638. recusants, Glos., Mon. July 1675;CTB iv. 790. inquiry, Forest of Dean 26 Aug. 1679.CTB vi. 196.

: of Tredegar, Mon., Bassaleg.

Likenesses

Likenesses: half-length portrait, c. 1660, once at Tredegar House.J. Steegman, Portraits in Welsh Houses, ii. 163.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

MORGAN, William II (c.1640-80), of Tredegar, Bassaleg, Mon.

Will

30 Oct. 1674, cod. 20 Apr. 1678, pr. 6 Aug. 1680.PROB11/363, f. 389.

Estates

at first marriage, manors of ‘Ebboth alias Grenfeild’, Sutton, John le Moore, Red Castle, Llanfair [Cilgedin], ‘Castle Arnold’, ‘Youlton’, 40 messuages, 5 water grist mills, 5,000 acres of land, 500 acres of meadow, 3,000 acres of pasture, 1,000 acres of wood, 5,000 acres of furze and heath in Bassaleg, St Woollos, St Brides Wentlloog, Machen, Bedwellty, Bedwas, Mynyddislwyn, St Mellons, Marshfield, Rumney, Llangattock juxta Usk, Llanfair Cilgedin; advowson of Llanfair Cilgedin.NLW, Tredegar Estate 162. In addition, at second marriage, manors and lordships of Undy, Magor, Llanfihangel, Llanfaches, Caldicott West End, Rogiatt and Ifton, lands in New Church, Cefn Golau, Bedwas, Bedwellty, Machen, Mynyddislwyn and Shire Newton; all in Mon.NLW, Tredegar Estate 73/8. Estate valued in 1660 at c.£4,000 p.a.P. Jenkins, ‘Wales and the Order of the Royal Oak’, NLWJ xxiv. 347.

Oxford 1644

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