Thomas Jones of Llanerchrugog Hall in Wrexham Wales 19th Century Welsh Miniature


Thomas Jones of Llanerchrugog Hall in Wrexham Wales 19th Century Welsh Miniature

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Thomas Jones of Llanerchrugog Hall in Wrexham Wales 19th Century Welsh Miniature:
$828.07



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Fine antique nineteenth century unsigned miniature of Thomas Jones (1819-1894) of Llanerchrugog Hall, an ancient manor house in Wrexham. He married the sister of Queen Victoria\'s Postmaster General, Henry Cecil Raikes.According to \'The County Families of the United Kingdom\' by Edward Walford in 1860 Thomas Jones was the second son of Thomas Jones and was descended in direct paternal line from Gwaithwoed Lord of Powys and Cardigan in the 10th century and that Llanerchrugog Hall had been a seat of the family for fifteen generations.In an extraordinary act of defiance against the imposition of taxes in 1649, John Jones of Lanerchrugog Hall stated that his family should be exempt from taxes due to his ancient Welsh pedigree to the Princes of Wales. It is recorded in the \'Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion\', as being the only known example of a citizen objecting to the imposition of taxes on the grounds of genealogy. It is an interesting example of the influence of pedigrees on the Welsh mind:\"The answeare of John Jones gente to wrongfull Impositiones of money Imposed uppon hym or his lands by any of The Parlament Officers against the lawe and Justice of this land of Wales, p[re]sented to the ho[nour]able generall Thomas Mitton generall of the kings and Parlament forces in North Wales.\"He gives much detail to the ancient tenures as laid down by Dyfynwal Moelmud King of Britain some 2,400 years previously. Then followed a detailed pedigree of his family, tracing them from Moelmud and the successive kings of Britain, to the Princes of Powys, the Lords of Englefield, and finally to John Jones himself-in all, sixty-three generations. He said of his lands that they were not liable to taxation, because he held them \"by descent from the said Dyfynwal Moel mud 2400 yeares agoe or thereabouts.\"Size of Portrait: 9.5 x 7 cm approx
Size of Frame: 14.5 x 12.5 cm approx

Thomas Jones of Llanerchrugog Hall in Wrexham Wales 19th Century Welsh Miniature:
$828.07

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