• General Notes

  Dorothy D'Oyly, married in 1637456 to the Rev. Samuel Welles, A.M. the noted Puritan divine, vicar of Banbury in Oxfordshire; son of William Welles of St. Peter's, Oxford, where he, Samuel, was born. Aug. 1614, and brought up in Magdalen College; A.M. 1636; ordained 1638; Regimental Chaplain to Col. Essex in 1644; Rector of Remenham,  co. Berks, 1647, whence in 1648 "he accepted of a call to Banbury." In 1649 the Rev. Samuel Welles was one of the principal persons concerned in a protest against Charles I.'s murder, and continued at Banbury till 1662; when he was ejected as a Nonconformist. He afterwards, however, returned to that town, and remained there till his death.—This Welles was an amiable man, cheerful, liberal, and generous; and it was said of him, by one who heard him preach, "that the ears of his audience seemed chained to his lips."[457]—Dorothy his wife had borne him ten children before 1662, and was then pregnant of the eleventh; she was alive in 1674.—One of their children was named D'Oyly Welles; and he was a legatee in the will of his relative Ursula, sister of Sir John D'Oyly of Chislehampton, Bart.

Details of Samuel's family with Dorothy D'Oyly