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APPENDIX G 641 took his seat, as " W" Lord Sydenham one of the Lords Com" of y' Trea[su]ry," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector 3 Sep. 1658, and was a member of his Privy Council. Councillor of State, in the "Restored Rump," 13 May to 25 Oct. 1659; and member of the Committee of Safety, representing the " Wallingford House " party, 26 Oct. 1659. At the Restoration he was included in the Act of Indemnity, but was prohibited from holding any public office, 2 Aug. 1660. He ;;;., in 1637, Grace, 3rd da. of John Trenchard, of Warmwell, Dorset, by Jane, yst. da. of Sir John Rodney, of Stoke GifFard, Somerset. He was bur. I Aug. 1 661, at Wynford Eagle afsd. His widow was bur. there 9 Aug. 1 66 1. THOMAS [59] Edmond Thomas,(*) only s. and h. of William T., of WenvoejC") Glamorgan (who d. 9 June 1636), by Jane, ist da. of Sir John Stradling, of St. Donat's Castle, in the same co., ist Bart.; bap. 1633, at Wenvoe. M.P. for Glamorgan 12 July 1654-55. He was sum. to the "Other House," 10 Dec. i657,('=) and took his seat, as " Edmond Lord Thomas," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he took the oath in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords 21 Feb. 1658/9. () He w., istly, Elizabeth,^^) sister and h. of Thomas Morgan {d. s.p., before 1655), da. and h. of Sir Lewis Morgan, of Rhiwperra, Glamorgan, by Anna,(') only da. and h. of Sir Charles Morgan, Gov. of Bergen-op-Zoom. He ;;;., 2ndly, i Aug. 1671, at Wenvoe, Mary, 5th da. of Sir Thomas Lewis, of Penmark Place, Glamorgan. He d. 1677, and was bur. at Wenvoe. Admon. 4 July 1677, and 16 Feb. 1 690/1. His widow was living in 1701. (^) He bore for arms: Sable a cheveron and a quarter Ermine. C") Sir Edmond Thomas, 3rd Bart., sold Wenvoe Castle and estate in 1765. ("=) " Mr. Edmund Thomas, a gentleman of Wales, of considerable means, a friend of Philip Jones's, and allied to Walter Strickland, both of the council, and brought in upon their account ; of complying principles . . . being none of the great zealots or high sectaries, so called, in Wales, may doubtless be counted wise and good enough to make a simple lord of the other house." {Second Narrative of the late Par- liament). {<*) " Before the sitting of the house this Day Edmond Lord Thomas tooke the Oath prescribed by the humble addiconall and explanatory peticon and aduise in the chamb' called the Princes lodgings before the Lord Chamblen and Lord Dis- brow." {House of Lords MSS., p. 539). (*) Mar. Articles, 17 June 1652. Post-nuptial Settlement, of Wenvoe 6 Aug. 1655, and of Rhiwperra 19 Dec. 1655. {Genealogies 0/ Glamorgan, by G. T. Clark, P- 558). (') She was naturalized by Act of Pari., 18 Feb. 1650/1; and m., as her 2nd husband, Walter Strickland, English Agent at The Hague. See ante, p. 640.