From the Francis Jones Archives

Edited by

Caroline Charles-Jones

This book has been compiled from his Archives, collected in over seventy years of an illustrious career. Since his death in 1996 his reputation as one of the most eminent of Welsh scholars continues to grow. 

Format follows that of the Pembrokeshire Treasury publication.

The book comprises 328 pages and is the second in the Dyfed Treasury series

The first part of the book contains a section where Patron Subscribers’ names are recorded. FJ was the first Wales Herald at Arms since the time of the Black Prince some 600 years ago

Contents include:

Some Historic Homes

The Human Element in

Carmarthenshire Society

Elections

The Soldier Squire of Derwydd

The Ethos of Golden Grove

The Duchess of Golden Grove

A Robust Cavalier

Aberglasney, the house and families

Trefenty

Nash Homes

Carmarthenshire Coats of Arms and

Genealogy

Carmarthenshire Military Men

Herbs and Healing

Carmarthenshire Families

Crime

Law and Retribution

Some Carmarthenshire Writers

Jacobus

Norman Carmarthen

The Castell Gorfod Ghost

Legend of Cadifor's Court

Cwmgwili, the Mansion and families

Middleton Hall

The Gwyns of Gwempa

Local Customs

The Roman Past

Carmarthenshire Doctors

Matrimonial Battles

. . . and many more subjects published for the first time