I may add, that among the Gwerclas pictures are portraits of Richard Hughes and Frances; the latter exhibiting in features an complexion the unmistakeable impress of Italian lineage.
William Hughes.
Twyford, Hants, March 18. 1851.
WILLIAM WOLPE. ===
Arms, Vert a fox |
courant, proper. |
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JOHN WOLPE, aliter VULP, "An Italian === ---- ----, "Descended
doctor; was ffamous in Queene Eliza- | of the ffamily of the Monn-
beth's tyme, went with George Erle | taynes in Yorkshire, who
of Cumberland most of his sea | keepe the name this daye
voyages, and was with him at the | [1622.]."
takeing of Portorico, in the Indies." |
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RICHARD EVERS (1st) === FRANCES, "Sole === (2nd) RICHARD HUGHES, Esq., of
"Of the ffamily of | daughter." Died | Gwerclas, co. Merioneth, Baron of
Evers of Coventry." | 29 June, 1636, | Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion. Married
| circa æt. 50. | 2 Nov. 1601. Died 21 March, 1641,
| | circa æt. 80.
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MARTHA, "Only daughter." === RICHARD LLOYD HUMFFREY HUGHES, Esq. of Gwerclas,
Born 25 January, 1599. | of Vaerdre [in Baron of Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion, son
Married, 27 June, 1616. /|\ Edeirnion, co. and heir. High Sheriff of Merioneth-
Merioneth]. shire in 1670. Born 14 Aug. 1605.
"Had issue sonnes and daughters, now [19 April, Buried at Llangar in Edeirnion,
1622] liveing." 4 May, 1682. ---
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Giovanni Volpe or Master Wolfe (Vol. iii., p. 188.).—This person was certainly never "physician to Queen Elizabeth," but he may have received from her Majesty the appointment of apothecary, as he did from her successor. On New-Year's day, 1605-6, John Vulp presented to the king "a box of Indian plums," receiving in return 7 oz. di. di. qr. of gilt plate; he is then named the last of five apothecaries who paid their votive offerings to royalty. (Nichols's Progresses, &c. of King James I., vol. i. p. 597.) In 1617 he had risen to be the king's principal apothecary, and by the name of John Wolfgango Rumlero received "for his fee by the year 40 li.," as appears by the abstract of his Majesty's revenue attached to the pamphlet entitled Time brought to Light by Time. From the name here given him, it may be conjectured that he was rather from Germany than Italy. However, he also went by the plain English name of Master Wolfe.
He is thus alluded to in the epilogue to Ben Jonson's Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies, when it was performed at Windsor in September, 1621:—
"But, lest it prove like wonder to the sight
To see a gipsy, as an Æthiop, white,
Know that what dy'd our faces was an ointment