JONES, Edmund (1612-83), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., Llansoy, Mon. and Buckland, Llansantffraed, Brec.

Family and Education

b. 1612, s. of John Jones of Llandenny, Mon. and Staple Inn, Mdx. educ. Jesus, Oxf. 8 Sept. 1634, ‘aged 21’; BA 1636.Al. Ox.; Bradney, Hist. Mon. ii. pt. 1, p. 42. G. Inn 3 Nov. 1637.G. Inn Admiss. 214. m. (1) lic. 20 Jan. 1640 Catherine Games wid. of Holborn, Mdx. s.p. (2) by 30 Sept. 1648 Gwladys (d. 1699), da. and coh. of Edward Games of Buckland, 5s, 4da.London Mar. Lics. ed. Chester, 770; Jones, Hist. Brec. iii. 204. d. 6 June 1683.T. Jones, Hist. Brec. iii. 204; PROB11/245 f. 362.

Offices Held

Legal: called, G. Inn 1 June 1641;PBG Inn, i. 342. bencher, 1668; reader, 1669; treas. 1671.PBG Inn, i, 457, 458, 494, ii. 1,6,18. Att.-gen. Brec., Card., Carm., Pemb., Rad. 29 June 1653–60.CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 452.

Household: steward, Raglan, for Henry Somerset, 5th earl of Worcester, 8 Mar. 1642.Diary of Walter Powell ed. J.A. Bradney (Bristol, 1907), 26. Seneschal, manor of Brecon, for William Morgan II* by 1667.NLW Tredegar, File 124/163. High steward, estates in Mon. of Henry Somerset*, 3rd mq. of Worcester, by Sept. 1668.NLW, Badminton Estate, manor of Portcassecke ct. roll, 1665–8; estreat 1669; estreats, cts. of frankpledge, 1676–77.

Local: commr. array (roy.), Mon. 19 Nov. 1642;Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.; CCC 1524. charitable uses, S. Wales c.1651–3;SP18/73, f. 163. assessment, Brec. 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1661, 1672, 1677, 1679; Mon. 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1679. 1653 – ?Mar. 1660A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Judge, relief of poor prisoners, Brec., Rad. 5 Oct. 1653. 1653 – ?Mar. 1660A. and O. J.p. Pemb. by 20 Aug.; Rad. by 17 Apr. 1654 – ?July 1659; Carm. by 14 Aug. 1654 – ?Mar. 1660; Brec. by 16 Apr. 1655 – ?Mar. 1660, 17 Aug. 1661 – d.; Haverfordwest 15 Mar. 1655 – ?Sept. 1659; Card., Glam. by 20 Mar. 1656 – ?Mar. 1660; Mon. by Oct. 1660–?d.C181/6, p. 96; Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 171, 197, 220, 241, 243, 273, 275, 303, 336, 362. Commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 10 July 1660-aft. Feb. 1673.C181/7, pp. 12, 638. Solicitor to council in the marches of Wales, 1662; member of council, 1670.CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 462, 1670, p. 190. Commr. sewers, Mon. 26 Aug. 1669.C181/7, p. 505. Dep. lt. Brec. 23 Jan. 1674–?CSP Dom. 1673–5, p. 116.

Civic: recorder, Brecon 1650 – 76; Carmarthen 1658 – ?; New Radnor by 1659–60.Williams, Parlty Hist. Wales, 16; Articles of Impeachment (1659), 14 (E.983.31).

: Mdx., Llansoy, Mon. and Llansantffraed, Brec., Buckland.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oils, unknown.T. Jones, Hist. Brec. iii. 204.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

JONES, Edmund (1612-83), of Gray’s Inn, Mdx., Llansoy, Mon. and Buckland, Llansantffraed, Brec.

Will

7 Mar. 1683, pr. 17 Dec. 1683.PROB11/374, f. 308.

Estates

compounded Oct. 1646 for land in Mon. inc. copyholds in Llandenny worth £8 p.a.; lands in Llandenny in reversion worth £12 p.a.; lands in Llantrissent worth £5; in Llanishen and Llangovan worth £7; tenement in Raglan in right of his w. worth £7; messuage in Llansoy.SP18/73, f. 155. At death, lands inc. in Llandyfaelog, Brec.; Trostrey, Llanwern, Trevethin, Mon.; mortgages of lands in Llanvapley, Mon., Hay and Llanigon, Brec.PROB11/374, f. 308.

Oxford 1644

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