ENDERBIE
,
PERCY
[
c.
1606
-
1670
],
historian and antiquary
,
author of
Cambria Triumphans
; second son, according to
Lincolnshire Pedigrees
(
Harl. Soc.
), of
Thomas
Enderby
,
attorney
, of
Lincoln
, and his wife,
Elizabeth
, daughter of
Robert
Rusforth
,
Coley Hall
,
Yorkshire
.
Percy
Enderbie
's wife was
Winifred
, sister of
Sir
Edward
Morgan
of
Llantarnam, Mon.
(
see the article on the family
), daughter of
lady
Frances
, daughter of the
4th earl of Worcester
(
see under
Somerset
)
.
Enderbie
lived many years in
Wales
, learnt
Welsh
, and became an enthusiast in his admiration for the
Welsh nation
and its history. In his foreword to
Cambria Triumphans
,
1661
, written at
Llantarnam
, he states that he had found much of his material in the library of
Sir
Edward
Morgan
, his brother-in-law. His book was intended to show that ‘the manner of
Great Britain
's
Government
was ever princely,’ and to inform the
Stuarts
of their
Welsh
ancestry. This book is one of the few sources of information regarding the territorial linguistic boundary in the
17th cent.
In the same year,
1661
, was published
Enderbie
's
English
translation of a work by
B.
Pererius
(
Valentinus
)
against astrology.
Enderbie
had also intended to write a history of
Monmouthshire
, and had collected much material. Pedigrees, etc., of his compilation were used by
David
Williams
in his
The History of Monmouthshire
,
1796
, and
Sir
Joseph A.
Bradney
states in
A History of Monmouthshire
that the ‘
Pistyll MSS
’ were probably the work of
Enderbie
. It is claimed that the pedigrees in
N.L.W. MS. 1472
are copied from an earlier manuscript by him.
Cambria Triumphans
was reprinted in
1810
.
[In
Bliss
's ed. of
Anthony
Wood
(iii, 994),
Enderbie
is said to have d. in
1670
, and to have been buried at
Caerleon-on-Usk
. In his family
pedigree, he is entered between a brother b. in
1604
and a sister b. in
1608
.]
Bibliography:
-
Enderbie
,
Cambria triumphans, or Brittain in its
perfect lustre shewing the origen and antiquity of that
illustrious nation, the succession of their kings and
princes, from the first, to King Charles, of happy
memory
, 1810, facsimile reprint of edition published
in London, 1661
;
-
Bradney
,
A History of Monmouthshire
;
-
T. D. Kendrick
,
British Antiquity, etc.
, London,
1950
,
1950
;
-
British Museum. Catalogue of Printed
Books
, 1882
.
Author:
David Myrddin Lloyd, M.A., (1909-81), Aberystwyth / Scotland
