1630 unto this present year 1660. Wherein is interwoven a Compleat History of the High-born Dukes of York and Glocester,’ London, 1660, 8vo, a work to be distinguished from the better-known book respecting Charles I [see Gauden, John]. 5. ‘Cabala: or the History of Conventicles unvail'd: in an Historical Account of the Principles and Practices of the Nonconformists. … With an Appendix of cxx. Plots against the present Government that have been defeated,’ London, 1664, 4to, published under the pseudonym of Oliver Foulis. 6. ‘The Worthies of the World,’ abridged from Plutarch, London, 1665, 8vo. 7. ‘Dying and Dead Mens Living Words, or fair Warnings to a careless World,’ London, 1665 and 1682, 12mo, being a collection of sayings by great men in all ages. 8. ‘Wonders no Miracles: or Mr. Valentine Greatrack's Gift of Healing examined’ (anon.), London, 1666, 4to. 9. ‘A Treatise of Moderation,’ 1674. 10. Exposition of the catechism and liturgy.
[Whitworth's Preface to the State Worthies; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iv. 348, and Life, p. clxxvi; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), pp. 1376, 1891; Hearne's Collections, ed. Doble (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), ii. 73, 263, 331; Brydges's Censura Literaria, 1807, iii. 230.]
LLOYD, DAVID (d. 1714?), captain in the navy and Jacobite agent, was in 1672 appointed lieutenant of the Henry. In 1677 he was promoted to be captain of the Mermaid, and during the next three years commanded the Reserve, Dover, and Crown in the Mediterranean. In May 1687 he was appointed to the Sedgemoor. At the time of the revolution he commanded one of the ships under Lord Dartmouth [see Legge, George, Lord Dartmouth], and having knowledge of the design of some of the captains to seize Dartmouth and deprive him of the command, he discovered it to him, and so caused the plot to fail (Memoirs relating to the Lord Torrington, Camden Soc., p. 32). When the cause of James was lost in England, Lloyd followed him to France, and during the whole of the reign of William III seems to have been actively employed as an agent in the interests of the exiled king. It was through him that the negotiations were carried on with Admiral Russell previous to the battle of Barfleur [see Russell, Edward, Earl of Orford], and afterwards with the Duke of Marlborough. Both in 1690 and in 1692 he was proclaimed a traitor, and orders were issued for his apprehension. But then and afterwards he escaped the threatened dangers and continued to act as a go-between from James to his partisans in England. After the death of James II he appears to have retired into private life, but continued to reside in France. He is said to have returned to England in 1714. He seems to have died suddenly in 1716. He is described as a man of honest purpose, possessed of a fund of quaint though rough humour.
[Charnock's Biog. Nav. ii. 14; Macaulay's Hist. of England, cabinet ed., vi. 57, 63; Tindall's Continuation of Rapin's Hist. of England; Clarke's Life of James II.]
LLOYD, DAVID (1752–1838), divine and poet, only son of Thomas Lloyd of Trevodick, by Mary, daughter of David James of Little Croscunnon, was born at Croscunnon Llanbister, Radnorshire, on 12 May 1752. Though he had as a boy to work on the paternal farm, he managed to pick up a knowledge of Latin and mathematics from the neighbouring schools, set himself to learn Greek unassisted, and was able in 1771 to establish a small school at Llanbister. His leisure he devoted to preparing himself for the church, and he took holy orders in 1778. He served a curacy at Putley, Herefordshire, from 1785 till 1789, when he became vicar of Llanbister. Here in 1792 he composed a religious poem, in distant imitation of Young, entitled ‘The Voyage of Life,’ in nine books. Encouraged by a critic's commendation of the ‘moral tendency of his muse,’ he dedicated a revised and enlarged edition of this work, ‘with other poems,’ to Thomas Burgess, bishop of St. Davids, in 1812. The title was altered to ‘Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Sentiments, or the Voyage of Life,’ London, 8vo. His only other work was ‘Horæ Theologicæ, or a Series of Essays on Subjects Interesting and Important, embracing Physics, Morals, and Theology,’ London, 1823. Apart from his writings, Lloyd displayed natural abilities as a mechanician and as a musician, devised ‘perpetual motion’ engines, and composed several pieces of music, of which a march, called ‘The Loyal Cambrian Volunteers,’ was published and met with success. Lloyd died at Llanbister, after an incumbency of forty-nine years, on 3 March 1838, leaving 500l. to the Church Missionary Society, of which he had been a zealous supporter (Church Missionary Record, 1839, p. 236). He married in 1779 Mary, daughter of John Griffiths of Leehall, Llangunllo, Radnorshire, and had one son, John, who died in childhood. Mrs. Lloyd died in 1836, aged 89.
[Williams's Eminent Welshmen, p. 281; Gent. Mag. 1838, i. 662–3; Lloyd's works in British Museum.]
