Sir John Glynne (oil on canvas)

Sir John Glynne (1603-66). A three-quarter-length portrait of the Chief Justice at the time of Cromwell, wearing a white robe lined with red, and the Sergeant’s coif, at Hawarden. Sir John Glynne was MP for Westminster in the Short and Long Parliaments. A Puritan, he became in 1655 Sergeant to the Protector and Chief Justice of the Upper Bench. The desire for self-advancement, which appears to have been his most striking characteristic, left no room for scruples; he ended his life with a knighthood and the post of King's Ancient Sergeant. When he was trampled by his horse in Charles Il's Coronation parade in 1661, Pepys noted that `people do please themselves to see how just God is to punish the rogue'. His daughter, Frances, married Sir Robert Williams, end Bt of Penrhyn. The second wife of the 2nd Lord Penrhyn, Jessy Glynne of Hawarden, was also a descendant.