Breconiæ populo signa sequenda pio.”
[287] His father was Maurice Johnson of Stamford, M.P. for Stamford in 1523; but his mother was a Welsh heiress and had property in Clun. This was perhaps the connection with Wales that made him be chosen on the Foundation. He had been of Clare Hall and Trinity College, Cambridge.
[288] Principal Hoare (1768-1802) may seem to be an exception, but the College books record that he was born in Cardiff.
[289] The Indenture by which Sir Leoline Jenkins assigned definite Fellowships and Scholarships to North or South Wales is dated 1685.
[290] See Clark’s Register of the University of Oxford, II. i. 291-293.
[291] Printed (but not published) in 1854. This contemporary Memoir has therefore been largely used in the present sketch.
[292] The Life of Francis Mansell, D.D., by Sir Leoline Jenkins, p. 45. Sir George Vaughan is said to have been of Fallesley, Wilts.—not of Ffoulkston—his family was a branch of the Breconshire Vaughans.
[293] Presumably Leoline Jenkins.
[294] The house and business still remain, No. 66 Holywell.
[295] 1661, as we now reckon the year.