William Salesbury (of Rhug)

William Salusbury (1580–1660) was a Welsh privateer in the East Indies, poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.

On 15 May 1613, Salesbury took Pierce Griffith, Elen Owen and others to the chancery court to gain access to the lands left to him after exposing that Elen Owen had "insinuated herself into familiarity with him (Uncle John Salesbury) by offer to be a nurse" .... "to make a prey to herself and her accomplices of the whole estate of money, land and goods of the said John Salisburye" and leases to the estate had been obtained by "fraud and deceit".

However, when his eldest son married Mary, daughter of Gabriel Goodman of Abenbury, prothonotary of North Wales, a fierce quarrel drove Salysbury to split the family estate into two halves.

[7] In 1637, Colonel Salusbury built Rug Chapel, with a plain exterior and a richly ornate interior of intense carvings and decoration.

On the south west corner, further cannon fire sought to breach the thinner outer curtain wall, the mantlet.

The Royalists marched out of the castle after being granted the "honours of war" by General Mytton with the musketeers' matches lit at both ends.

On the eve of the king's execution in 1649, Charles sent Salusbury an embroidered cap of crimson silk as a token of his respect.