Political Career
In 1660, Williams was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouth in the Convention Parliament. He was elected MP for Monmouthshire in 1667 for the Cavalier Parliament in a strongly contested by-election election against the Marquis of Worcester's nominee. He later made a name for himself on anti-Catholic committees. He was elected MP for Monmouth again in March 1679 for the First Exclusion Parliament and MP for Monmouthshire in October 1679 for the Second Exclusion Parliament as a member of the grouping which later became known as Whigs. In 1680 he proposed in the House of Commons that Worcester - who by now had become the Duke of Beaufort - be removed from the royal court and council, on the grounds that he was secretly a "Papist", and that Worcester's garrison at Chepstow should be disbanded.
In 1681 Williams was re-elected MP for Monmouthshire. By 1683 he was accused of fomenting trouble among the youth of Monmouthshire, and in 1684 Beaufort successfully sued him and his ally John Arnold for scandalum magnatum, libel against a peer. Williams was fined £20,000 (equivalent to £2,477,245 in 2007 ) and imprisoned. In 1689 he was elected MP for Monmouthshire again although he was in the King's Bench prison. He died in 1692.
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