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From the Francis Jones Archives

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.

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

Since our previous publications we have been deluged by world-wide requests for more of FJ’s work. The result is this book. It covers a vast historical sweep of articles, reviews, poetry, lectures, essays, short stories, radio scripts and a mass of intriguing information. Much is previously unpublished and the book is extensively illustrated. Some subjects covered in the ‘Treasury’
A Medley of Pembrokeshire Houses and their Families	Our Sporting Past
Pembrokeshire from Norman Times	Farming Matters
Pembrokeshire Coats of Arms	Dissent and Disaffection
Pembrokeshire Regiments	Some Ancestral Mansions
Of Ghosts and Ghouls, of Hauntings and Horrors	Short Stories, Fables and Legends
Poems	Tales of Treasure Trove
Dewsland Nocturne	The Mathry Tithe Suit
Diana of the Chase	Matters Ecclesiastical
Duels Priests, Parsons and Parishioners	Trail of the Fugitive
Some Vanished Pembrokeshire Splendours	Pembrokeshire Pigs
Stackpole Court and the Lorts	Smugglers, Pirates, and Matters Maritime
FJ's Notebook Jottings	Holy Wells
My Unforgettable Pembrokeshire Companion	The Patagonian Papers
. . . and much more

We hope that our Pembrokeshire Treasury will give you, your family, and friends hours of pleasurable reading over many coming years and to have presented some of Pembrokeshire’s history in a ‘must have’ form.

We are deeply grateful to those many kind Patron Subscribers who have honoured us with their support in the past.

The FJ Treasury will also introduce new readers to Pembrokeshire history as presented by its most distinguished historian, Major Francis Jones, late Wales Herald at Arms Extraordinary.