William Vaughan (royalist) their property. When the king in May 1645 marched from Oxford towards Chester, he was met on the 17th at Newport, Shropshire (or Evesham), by Vaughan. He was defeated by Oliver Cromwell on 27 April at Bampton in Oxfordshire. During the next four weeks he accompanied the king), and at the battle of Naseby he took part in the charge that pierced through the enemy's force. After that defeat he fell back on Shropshire, where on 4 and 5 July he won two victories, resulting in the relief of High Ercall. Vaughan was shortly after directed by Prince Maurice to
Thomas Barton (Royalist) Thomas Barton (Royalist) Thomas Barton, D.D. (died 1681–2), was a royalist divine. Barton received his education at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and took both degrees in arts in that university before 20 November 1629, when he was presented by Charles I to the rectory of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, then void by simony. He subsequently, and apparently in 1631, became rector of Westmeston, Sussex, of which benefice he was, for his loyalty, deprived in 1642. During the civil war he was chaplain to Prince Rupert, and on 25 August 1660 he was restored to his rectory of Westmeston. On 21 March 1663 he