The Fonmon Castle Family and Estate Archive

Item date: 13th - 20th centuries
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 75,000
Item date acquired: 1995
Item institution: Glamorgan Archives
Town/City: Cardiff
County: Glamorgan

3,000 manuscript title deeds, 450 dating from before 1600, court rolls, rentals surveys and plans of the estate. Also an important archive of letters from the Commonwealth period when the estate was owned by Colonel Philip Jones, a trusted friend of Oliver Cromwell. There is also a series of letters from John and Charles Wesley to Mary Jones, the widow of Robert Jones II, who had been at Christ Church with Charles Wesley and invited the brothers to preach in the neighbourhood

Item Provenance
Deposited at the Record Office by Sir Hugo Boothby of Fonmon Castle, bought by private treaty from his son Sir Brooke Boothby