(Richard), was descended from a good family, and was born at Tuffleigh in Gloucestershire in the year 1615. He was educated at Oxford, from whence he removed to Lincoln's Inn, and afterwards distinguished himself by his loyalty to King Charles I., for whom he raised a troop of horse at his own expense. At the Restoration he was made one of the deputy lieutenants of Gloucestershire, and distinguished himself by his attachment to the government. But at length being committed prisoner to the Marshalsea in Southwark for debt, he died there on the 14th of September 1677. He wrote several pieces, particularly A Treatise on the Original and Growth of Printing.