The Revd. Moore Pye: A Cromwellian Soldier and Schoolmaster at Monmouth and Llanvapley by Jeremy Knight
The breach of the Great Tower at Raglan Castle The Revd. Moore Pye: A Cromwellian Soldier and Schoolmaster at Monmouth and Llanvapley by Jeremy Knight In 1646, soon after Raglan Castle fell to the Parliamentary army, an ex-soldier Revd Moore Pye , became Usher (Deputy Headmaster ) of Monmouth School . The Pyes were a Herefordshire family, whose head was the royalist Sir Walter Pye of Dewchurch. More Pye’s unusual Christian name probably derived from a marriage alliance with another border family, the puritan Moores of Bishop’s Castle in Shropshire, clients of the influential parliamentarian Harleys of Brampton Bryan. Moore Pye had family connections with Walford, between Monmouth and Hay on Wye. He was a university graduate, one of a minority among parish clergy at this date, though he does not appear in Alumni Oxoniensis , an invaluable biographical guide to Oxford graduates, with their places of origin. 1 . He probably