JONES - LINE 2

"Part of Lincoln's Inn drawn by Thomas Shepherd c.1830. This illustration shows the Hall (now the Old
Hall), the Chapel and Chancery Court."

WIKIPEDIA  21:08, 14 October 2007  Finavon

"Jones, Castellmarch, Lleyn. Sir William Jones, Knight, Chief Justice of the King's Bench,
Ireland, and afterwards Justice of the same Court in England, was of this family. He died 6th
December, 1640, and was buried in Lincoln's Inn Chapel. His granddaughter, Margaret, heiress
of Castellmarch, married Sir William Williams, Bart. of Vaenol, whose grandson, in a drunken fit,
bequeathed both estates to Sir Bourchier Wrey and his brother for life, with remainder to William
the Third. They were granted afterwards by Queen Anne to the Right Hon. John Smith, Speaker
of the House of Commons, in whose family they still remain.:

The royal tribes of Wales By Philip Yorke
p - 187 - 191
The royal tribes of Wales - Google Books:
Publ1shed By Isaac Foulkes, I8, Brunsw1ck Street.
http://books.google.com/books?id=uFFDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=text
Thursday, December 10, 2009


Frankel Rare Books Collection
"Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794.
AN ESSAY ON THE LAW OF BAILMENTS. BY SIR WILLIAM JONES, KNT. ..
From the last London ed., with introductory remarks, and notes, comprising the most modern
authorities, by John Balmanno ..
Albany : Published by Backus and Whiting. 1806.
KD1679.J6 1806.

Frankel Rare Books Collection:
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
http://www.law.uh.edu/libraries/frankelbib.htm
Thursday, December 10, 2009

"In 1625 Sir William Jones, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench laid the foundation stone for his
new house at Castellmarch, at the foot of the sea-facing escarpment. The house is important
but the design is unusual, with one end wing and an off-centre door. Sir William’s son, Grifith
Jones, had espoused the Puritan cause for reasons of expediency. Sir John Owen of
Clenennau, a royalist General under Byron in the Civil War, his commission renewed in the
second civil war, was tried for treason and was condemned to death. Among the efforts for
reprieve was a daring exploit by the sea captain Bartlett who sailed from Wexford to the coast
near Castellmarch, plundered the house and took Griffith Jones hostage, against the life of Sir
John. Owen, through various agencies, got his reprieve (Dodd, 1968, 134;).
By the end of the seventeenth century, many tenements and properties in Llyn had come into the
possession of the Vaynol estate, initially to Sir William Williams and subsequently to Sir
Bourchier Wray. The Vaynol holdings on Llyn were concentrated in the south-east and, in
particular, on the Cilan Peninsula and in the parish of Llangian around Castellmarch and the
Neigwl plain. During the eighteenth century and into the third quarter of the nineteenth century,
the predominant occupation was farming and services related to farming. "

Llangian and Castellmarch:
Thursday, June 11, 2009
http://www.heneb.co.uk/llynhlc/llynhlcareasenglish/llangian17.html
Thursday, December 10, 2009


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William JONES
Margaret GRIFFITH
"JONES , Sir WILLIAM ( 1566 - 1640 ), judge , was the eldest son of William ap Griffith ap
John (d. 1587 ) and of his first wife, Margaret , daughter of Humphrey Wynn ap Maredudd
of Cesail Gyfarch (d. 1583 ) , first cousin to the grandfather of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir (q.v.
under Wynn of Gwydir ). His great-grandfather, John ap Robert ap Llywelyn ab Ithel , alias
John Roberts , of Castellmarch ( Llangïan ), was among the first batch of Caernarvonshire
local officials appointed under the Act of Union ( 1542 ) and became sheriff of the county in
1548 . His grandfather, Griffith ap John , entered the service of John Dudley , earl of Warwick
(later duke of Northumberland ) , co-regent for Edward VI , and was made constable of
Caernarvon castle ( 1549 ). John was the ancestor from whom the surname Jones was
adopted by some of the brothers of William ap Griffith , and consistently from the time of his
son William . Anthony Wood 's statement (corrected by Humphrey Humphreys in the
Bliss edition of Athenae Oxon .) that William Jones was educated at Beaumaris grammar
school is manifestly wrong: as a rising barrister he helped and advised David Hughes (d.
1609 ) (q.v.) in its foundation and acted as feoffee of the school and the almshouses . He
entered S. Edmund Hall , Oxford ( 1580? ), proceeded without graduating to Furnivall 's (
1585 ) and Lincoln's (1587) Inns , was called to the Bar , 1595 , and appointed Lent reader in
1616 . From 1603 he was legal adviser to his kinsman Sir John Wynn , assisting him in
his numerous lawsuits (many against his own wife's nephew, John Griffith II , Cefnamwlch ,
see the article on that family), and his parliamentary candidatures, and corresponding with him
over Welsh literature and antiquities. He represented Beaumaris inconspicuously in the
parliament of 1597 and Caernarvonshire in that of 1601 ; he began to become active on
committees in that of 1604-11 , and in the Addled Parliament ( 1614 ) — where he reverted to
Beaumaris — he took a prominent part in opposing the royal prerogatives of proclamations
(under the Act of Union ) and of impositions. In 1617 he was knighted , made a serjeant at law
, and sent to Ireland as lord chief justice of King's Bench . Returning in 1620 , he declined
nomination as Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire (where he was now regarded as
‘prime man’), supporting the unsuccessful candidature of Sir John Wynn against John
Griffith . In 1621 he was nominated by bishop John Williams ( 1582 - 1650 ) (q.v.) as a
judge of Common Pleas (accepting office reluctantly, since he declared it involved him in a loss
of £300 a year), and in 1623 he was transferred to the King's Bench . It was on his advice that
Williams bought Penrhyn (to his regret) in 1622 . This, and the conduct of Wynn 's son,
Sir Richard , may have contributed to the breach with both the lord keeper and the Gwydir
connection, which culminated in Sir William 's successful opposition to Sir Richard 's
patent of the Greenwax ( 1624 ). This coolness did not prevent him from losing favour with
Buckingham in company with his patron, and this dashed his hopes of further promotion. In
1625 he retired to Castellmarch , and in the next three years rebuilt the house, much as it now
stands. His career as judge is fully described in D.N.B. He d. at Holborn 9 Dec. 1640 , and
was buried in Lincoln's Inn chapel .

He m. Margaret , daughter of Griffith ap John Griffith of Cefnamwlch , by whom he had five sons
(one dying in infancy) and six daughters, and on her death ( 1609 ) contracted a second
(childless) marriage with an English widow. "

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" GRIFFITH JONES , the second son, was put on the commission of array for
Caernarvonshire by Charles I ( 12 Aug. 1642 ), but soon became involved in a quarrel with
John Griffith II , Cefnamwlch , over a royal order to transport ordnance from the coast of Llŷn
for defence of the border, which Jones maintained would leave the coast dangerously
exposed; after that he appears to have taken little active part in public affairs till in June, 1647 —
after the county had fallen to Parliament — he was appointed by the Rump to the county
assessment committee . On 6 March 1649 the royalist captain , Bartlet , swooped down from
Wexford , plundered Castellmarch , and kidnapped Griffith Jones , probably as hostage for
the life of Sir John Owen (q.v.) , who had just been condemned to death. He continued to
serve on county committees (even under the Barebones régime) until the Protectorate
collapsed; but he was ill-disposed towards the dominant Puritanism. By Mar. 1660 , he had
become a supporter of the Restoration , serving as county magistrate in the round-up of
suspects and on the county militia ; notwithstanding which he was himself among the political
suspects from Llŷn lodged in Caernarvon gaol for a short time after the Restoration . In 1663 ,
however, he was named as sheriff . His daughter, Margaret , m. Sir William Williams of
Vaynol"

The National Library of Wales :: Dictionary of Welsh Biography:
Emeritus Professor Arthur Herbert Dodd, M.A., (1891-1975), Bangor
http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s1-JONE-WIL-1566.html
Thursday, December 10, 2009

"On the south side of the peninsula, an amusing yarn links Castell March House and its master
with the local smuggling fraternity: In the 17th century the owner, a knight called Sir William
Jones, was plagued by a forceful butler, who proved impossible to dismiss. Attempts to sack
him were treated as jokes, so Sir William hatched a plot to be rid of the man. He hired local
smugglers to kidnap the butler and dump him in some distant part. However, the plot misfired,
because once on board the smugglers' ship the butler made himself indispensable, and
eventually took over as the ship's master. To exact his revenge, he turned the tables, and
returning to Castell March, seized Sir William with the aid of the crew, and forced him to suffer
the same fate as he had once wished on his irritating servant."

Smuggling in west & mid-Wales:
Richard Platt
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
http://www.smuggling.co.uk/gazetteer_wales_12.html
Thursday, December 10, 2009

"Jones of Castdlmarck.

A family of some note in this co. in the i6th and i7th centuries, but of short continuance under the
designation Jones. Sion ap Robert ap Llywelyn ap Ithel, from whom William Sion, or Jones,
afterwards Sir William Jones, Kt., and Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, who received
Lewys LHvnn at Castellmarch in 1596, was the third in descent, and sheriff of the co. of
Carnarvon in 1549. The last representatives were two heiresses, one of whom m. Sir William
Williams, of Vaenol, the other a Price of Rhiwlas. Sir William Jones seems to have been the first
to adopt the surname, and his son, Griffith Jones, was the last male heir. As there seems to be
no lineal descendant of the family in existence, it must be considered as extinct. Castell-March
is now an ordinary farmhouse, the property of Mr. Assheton-Smith, as part of the Vaenol estate.

This family claimed descent from Meirion Goch ap Merfyn, son of Rhodri Mawr, and bore on their
shield the arms of Meirion,—" Az., a chevron between three nags' heads erased."

Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales ...
By Thomas Nicholas
p 338 - 342
LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND CO., \.PATERNOSTER ROW
http://books.google.com/books?id=iD4LAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=text
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