Charles Lloyd (ll) m. Elizabeth Lort (?-1685)
Lloyd H Fox was the 6th great grandson of Charles Lloyd & Elizabeth Lort
source: Quakers in the World
The Lloyd family can trace its history back to the days of the early Quakers in the 17th Century, and two brothers, Charles and Thomas, of Dolobran in Montgomeryshire, Wales.
Charles Lloyd became a Quaker in 1662. Like many other Quakers he refused to express his loyalty by swearing an oath to the king, and was soon imprisoned in Welshpool jail.
This jail had the worst reputation of any jail in Wales, but in 1663 his brother Thomas obtained permission for Charles to live in a small house within the prison walls. Astonishingly Charles’ wife Elizabeth then chose to join him there, and to ”share the little straw that was his bed”. Her sons Charles lll and Sampson I were born in this prison. After 10 years imprisonment, Charles and his fellow Quakers were released under the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672. He returned to Dolobran where he built a Meeting House. (Meeting house was built in 1700 so more likely built by Charles Lloyd lll?) He died in 1698 and was buried at Bull Lane Quaker Burial Ground in Birmingham, where his son Charles (lll) had settled (?? other sources show Charles lll moving to Birmingham in 1742).
source: Generations of Lloyds
George Fox, one of the founders, and leader of the Quaker movement, visited them in prison, and described the conditions, as follows:
They are kept very close together and placed in a dirty, nasty place on the ground floor. Above them are the town’s felons whose excrements and urine often fall upon them. They have little more than wet straw to lie on.