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THOMAS VAUGHAN, PRIEST, CONFESSOR
This gentleman, though he did not suffer at the common place of execution, was, nevertheless, a martyr for his priestly character and religion; and that, in the time of these troubles, though I have not met with the certain year of his death. Mr Austin, in his Christian Moderator, published under the name of W. Birchly, part II. giving a list of the priests executed in several places, during the parliamentary persecution which begun in 1641, closes it with this short account of our confessor, "Mr Thomas Vaughan, after very hard usage aboard Captain Molten's ship, soon after died at Cardiffe in South Wales."
He was of the ancient family of the Vaughans, of Courtfield, and was nephew to the famous Dr Giffard, who from a priest and professor of divinity in the English college then residing at Rhemes, became a monk of the venerable order of St Bennet, and first president general of the English congregation; and at length was made archbishop of Rheims, and primate of France. Mr Vaughan, as appears by the Douay Diary, entered student in the English college of Douay, anno 1622; and having taken the college oath, was by Dr Kellison; then president, presented for holy orders to his uncle, the archbishop of Rheims, from whom he received all his orders in September 1627, and was from Douay sent upon the English mission, the 27th of August, 1628. Other particulars relating to him, I have not been able to find.
Source: Bishop Richard Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, Volume 2
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