Brief Lives, Vol. 2

Chapter 234: William Stafford (1593-1684). Robert Stafford (1588-1644).

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A collection of concise biographical sketches of contemporaries and earlier figures recorded by an antiquarian observer, combining factual entries—births, offices, publications, and inscriptions—with personal anecdotes, hearsay, heraldic and parish-register notes, bibliographic references, and occasional critical judgments. Entries range from terse records to extended reminiscences, often citing documentary sources or witness statements, and reflect an informal, detail-driven approach aimed at preserving lives, reputations, and local traditions for reference and remembrance.

William Stafford (1593-1684).
Robert Stafford (1588-1644).

[989]William Stafford, of Thornbury in com. Gloc., esq., descended of the family of the duke of Buckingham, was a student of Christ Church, Oxon. Old Dr. Fell [990] was his tutor. About 30 yeares + since [991] he printed a pamphlet, viz. The reasons of the warre. I thinke he was a parliament man—but of that party he was. He dyed about May last, 1684, aged ... <at> Thornbury.

[992]Dorothy, sister to William Stafford aforesayd, married to her first husband, <Robert> Stafford, her kinsman, who was of Exeter Coll., and pupill to Dr. John Prideaulx. He wrote a thin 4to Geographie, which I have read. I remember he begins thus:—

'Indignation made Juvenal a poet and me a geographer.'