was sent to watch over Eustace Chapuys during his interview with Catherine of Aragon, at Kimbolton, shortly before her death. That summer, when again at Antwerp, he made vain efforts to save Tyndale, who was executed. Soon afterwards he was given a position in the Royal mint, of which he became under-treasurer in 1544. In 1538 he was sent with Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Edward Carne to negotiate respecting the intended marriage of Henry VIII with the Duchess-consort of Milan. About the same time he became governor of the merchant adventurers of Bergen, and in 1541 he was sent with Carne to the regent of Flanders to procure the repeal of the restrictions on English commerce. In 1544 he was granted the clerkship of dispensations, and about the same time the priory of St. Mary Spital, Shoreditch. He retained his post as agent in the Netherlands until September 1546, when he returned to England and occupied himself with his business as under-treasurer of the mint. On 26 October 1547 he was returned to parliament for Lancaster. Vaughan died in London on 25 December 1549. His Inquisition post mortem was held at the Guildhall, London before Sir Rowland Hill in June 1550. Family Vaughan's sister Magdalen or Mawdlyn was married first to the citizen and Grocer William Pratt (stepson of Sir Christopher Askewe, Draper, Lord Mayor 1533-34), who died in 1539. She then married (as his first wife) Pratt's apprentice Thomas Lodge (Lord Mayor 1562-63), who (by a later wife) was father of the poet-physician Thomas Lodge. Mawdlyn died in 1548, and in 1549 Stephen Vaughan made his "trustie friend" Thomas Lodge one of the two overseers of his will: the other was John Griffith alias Vaughan, the King's clerk. Vaughan was twice married. His first wife was Margaret ("Margery") Gwynneth or Guinet, daughter of Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Ithel of Castellmarch (Abersoch), Llŷn, Caernarfonshire. At her marriage to Vaughan she was the widow of Edward Awpart, citizen and Girdler of London in the parish of St Mary le Bow, who originated from Penkridge in Staffordshire and died in London in 1532 leaving Margaret with five children. Her brother John Gwynneth, rector of St Peter, Westcheap, was Vaughan's executor. By Margaret, who died in 1544, Vaughan had three surviving children: Anne Vaughan, married Henry, a younger son of Sir William Lok: Anne was a poet, and they were the parents of