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Edward Stradling (1529–1609)

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to Stradling and Rhys on the publication of the grammar, and referred to the former as a master of seven languages. He also spent large sums on public improvements. To check the encroachments of the sea on the Glamorganshire coast he built in 1606 a sea-wall at
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for 1573, 1581, and 1593, and was appointed in 1578 one of the county commissioners for the suppression of piracy. Stradling and three other Glamorganshire gentlemen were deputy lieutenants of
326: 176:. He also had a vineyard on his estate. Death intervened before he had arranged the endowment of a school, but his intentions were carried out by his heir with the founding of 134: 81:, whom he had married in 1566, placed an inscription to his memory in the Lady Chapel of the castle. Agnes died 1 February 1624, and was buried in the same chapel. 278: 125:
among those who had written on the history or genealogies of the whole of Britain, a researcher in records kept by religious houses. The register of
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spent almost a year at St. Donat's Castle, where he researched antiquarian matters that in 1686 had passed to
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wrote of Stradling as a benefactor, antiquarian, manuscript collector, and owner of a library at St. Donat's.
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Stradling died without issue on 15 May 1609, leaving his estate to his adopted son and second cousin,
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he constructed an aqueduct and seems to have attempted a harbour at the mouth of the
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where his heir and his widow Agnes, second daughter of Sir Edward Gage of
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was in Stradling's possession in 1574, but was later lost. In 1645–46
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The Winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan out of the Welshmen's Hands
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which was destroyed by a storm a few months later. At
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from 1590 to 1595, at a time of disturbances there.
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Index

Welsh
antiquary
Sir Thomas Stradling
University of Oxford
Steyning
Arundel
sheriff of Glamorganshire
Pembrokeshire
Sir John Stradling
St. Donat's Castle
Hengrave
Suffolk
Anthony Wood
David Powel
Humphrey Llwyd
Historie of Cambria
Blanche Parry
Thomas Leyson
Lewys Dwnn
Neath Abbey
James Ussher
Richard Parr
John Dafydd Rhys
Meurig Dafydd
cywydd
Aberthaw
Merthyrmawr
River Ogmore
Cowbridge Grammar School
Francis Walsingham

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