After the discovery of the Rye House Plot in 1683, the castle was raided by the government and weapons were seized.
With the "country party" in disarray, Lord Melville, Lord Leven, and Lord Shaftesbury, leader of the opposition to Charles's rule, fled to Holland where Shaftesbury soon died.
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Wythens oversaw the prosecution of the Rye House Plotters and the conviction of Titus Oates for perjury before travelling to the West Counties following the Monmouth Rebellion.
He was born at Llandaff Court, Llandaff, the son of Colonel Edward Mathews (died 1700), and grandson on his mother's side of Sir Thomas Armstrong (1624–1684) (who was executed in 1684, for his part in the Rye House Plot).