Editing Henry Vaughan (section)

==Education==
Thomas Vaughan later remarked that "English is a Language the Author was not born to."<ref>''Works of Thomas Vaughan'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984, ed. Alan Rudrum with [[Jennifer Drake-Brockman]], alias Jennifer Speake.</ref> Both boys were sent to school under Matthew Herbert, Rector of [[Llangattock]], to whom both wrote tributes. Matthew Herbert may have reinforced a devotion to church and monarchy the boys had learnt at home. Like several of Vaughan's clerical acquaintances, he later proved uncompromising during the [[Interregnum (England)|interregnum]]. He was imprisoned, his [[Sequestration (Law)|property was seized]], and he narrowly avoided banishment.<ref name="Bartleby">A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller, eds [http://www.bartleby.com/217/ The Sacred Poets], ''The Cambridge History of English and American Literature'', Vol 7. {{Rp|s9, p. 21}}</ref>

The buttery books of [[Jesus College, Oxford]] show Thomas Vaughan being admitted in May 1638. It is thought that Henry went up at the same time; [[Anthony Wood (antiquary)|Anthony Wood]] states, "He made his first entry into Jesus College in [[Michaelmas term]] 1638, aged 17 years. There is no clear record to establish Henry's residence or matriculation, but the assumption of his association with Oxford, supported by his inclusion in ''Athenae Oxoniensis'', is reasonable enough."

Recent research in the Jesus College archives, however, suggests that Henry did not enter Jesus College before 1641, unless he did so in 1639 without matriculating or paying an admission fee, and left before the record in the surviving buttery books resumes in December of that year.<ref>Brigid Allen, "The Vaughans at Jesus College, Oxford, 1638–48", ''Scintilla, The Journal of the Usk Valley Vaughan Association'', 4:2000, pp. 68–78, cited by Alan Rudrum in the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.</ref> It has been suggested that Henry went to Oxford later, after Thomas, based on poems each wrote for a 1651 edition of the ''Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with Other Poems'' of [[William Cartwright (dramatist)|William Cartwright]], who had died in 1643. Thomas had clearly attended Cartwright's lectures, which were a draw at the time: "When He did read, how did we flock to hear!"<ref>Rudrum, "Works of Thomas Vaughan," p. 582.</ref> Henry apparently had not, as his poem "Upon the poems and plays of the ever-memorable Mr William Cartwright" begins with the words, "I did but see thee."<ref>Rudrum, "Complete Poems of Henry Vaughan, p. 88.</ref> This and the 1647 poem "Upon Mr Fletcher's plays" are celebrations of Royalist volumes that implied "a reaffirmation of Cavalier ideals and a gesture of defiance against the society which had repudiated them."<ref>P. W. Thomas, "Sir John Berkenhead 1617–1679. ''A Royalist Career in Politics and Polemics'' (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969), p. 177.</ref>

As the [[English Civil War|Civil War]] developed, Vaughan was recalled home from London, initially to serve as a secretary to Sir [[Marmaduke Lloyd]], a chief justice on the Brecknockshire circuit and staunch [[Cavalier|royalist]]. Vaughan is thought to have served briefly in the Royalist army.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mathias |first=Roland |editor=Roland |year=1975 <!-- |month=[[John Powell Ward |J. P. Ward]]--> |title=In Search of the Silurist |journal=Poetry Wales |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=6–35 |location=Swansea |publisher=Christopher Davies}}</ref> On his return, he began to practise medicine.

By 1646, Vaughan had married Catherine Wise, with whom he reared a son, Thomas, and three daughters, Lucy, Frances, and Catherine. His courtship with his first wife is reflected in "Upon the Priory Grove", in his first volume of poetry, ''Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished'' (1646). After his first wife's death, he married her sister, Elizabeth, probably in 1655.<ref name=WBO2>{{Cite DWB |id=s-VAUG-HEN-1621 |title=VAUGHAN, HENRY (1621-1695), poet |first=Herbert Gladstone |last=Wright |year=1959}}</ref><ref>''Oxford Companion to English Literature'', s.v. Henry Vaughan.</ref>