Richard Skynner

Knight, paid for the memorial to his parents in Ledbury Church with his brother William The Bishop was cousin of Richard Skynner, of Cofton
Hackett, the eldest son of Edward Skinner, of Ledbury,
who purchased that manor for him from the Dyneley family,
upon his marriage with his first wife, Miss Dyneley ; and of
Dr. William Skynner, his brother, fellow of All Soul's,
Oxford; 1612, LL.D. March 31 ; 1625, chancellor of Hereford,
April 29,1626; rector of Beckenham, Kent, 1628; and in
1650 deprived of his living by the Parliament in favour of
John Soter, and never restored, as he died at Ledbury, 1657,
aged 66. This Richard's will showed, by his selection of
his executors, and the course pursued by them in the Civil
Wars, how friendships were broken ; two, his brother-in-law,
Sir Edward Lyttleton, Baronet, and Sir Edward Sebright,
Baronet, were fined by Parliament as Royalists, and one was
Humphrey Salwey, also married to a Miss Lyttleton, whom
he styles his dear brother Humphrey Salwey, and whose son
sat as one of the judges on the trial of King Charles I, and was M.P. for Worcestershire in the Long Parliament.