LLOYD
(
FLOYD
,
FLOOD
,
FLOUD
, or
FLUDD
),
EDWARD
(
c.
1570
-
1648?
), of
Llwyn-y-maen
, near
Oswestry
,
belonged to a group of inter-related families of ancient
Welsh
lineage in
north-eastern Powys
who resisted the
Reformation
. His remote ancestor
MEURIG
, from whom the surname is derived, had fought in the
French wars
of the later
middle ages and acquired
Llwyn-y-maen
through marriage with the heiress of the line of
Einion Efell
of that place (d.
1196
), an illegitimate offshoot of the ancient princes of
Powys
.
Edward
's father,
RICHARD
LLOYD
(d.
1601
), had been denounced in
1575
for receiving secret messages from
Hugh
Owen
of
Plas Du
(
1538
-
1618
) (q.v.)
, on his flight abroad after the
Ridolfi plot
, and was an avowed recusant in
1588
.
Edward
himself was entered at the
Middle Temple
in
1585
; by
1592
he was bracketed with his father as a
recusant
, but that did not prevent him from practising as a
barrister
before the Council at
Ludlow
nor from acting as
steward
in
Shropshire
to
lord chancellor Ellesmere
and to
Thomas
Howard
,
earl of Suffolk
. The removal of his patron the
lord chancellor
in
1617
made him more vulnerable, and in
July 1619
he got into trouble for promoting a petition to displace
Sir
Francis
Eure
from his judgeship of the
North Wales circuit
in favour of a fellow Inner Templar,
Rowland
Baugh
, on the ground that
Eure
's marriage within his circuit (to the grand-daughter of
Sir
William
Maurice
of
Clenennau
, q.v.
) was contrary to the
Act of Union
. He was imprisoned by order of the
Privy Council
in the
Tower
and then the
Fleet
, and the final order for his release did not come till the end of
1620
. Meanwhile his rash exhibition of joy at the defeat in
Bohemia
in Nov. of the
king
's
Protestant
son-in-law the elector palatine was reported, and became the subject of a heated debate in the Commons, the following May, when the determination of the House to take on itself powers to punish
Lloyd
was backed by many of the
Welsh
members, but eventually quashed on his appeal to the
king
, who referred the matter to the
Lords
. They sentenced him to pillory, branding, fine, and degradation from the status of a gentleman. He was not finally released till July, and did not recover his papers till Dec. Resumption of his practice must have been impossible, and there is no further reference to him until an uncertain report of his death in
July 1648
. His son,
RICHARD
LLOYD
(d.
1663
), fought as a
colonel
in the
Royal army
and was
governor
of
Oswestry
for the
king
in the
Civil War
.
Bibliography:
-
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and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog
, vi, 349-57;
-
English Historical Review
, lix, 352-3;
-
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-
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1547-1660
, London, 1877
,
1887
;
-
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-
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,
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,
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,
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Author:
Emeritus Professor Arthur Herbert Dodd, M.A., (1891-1975), Bangor
