Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameEdward JONES 
, 305
, 305Burial22nd April1743, Llanfair DC,14
FatherRichard JONES , 15348
MotherMary LLOYD , 15351 (-1728)
Notes for Edward JONES
Will of Edward Jones of “Pentre Cau Helun”, Llanfair DC, Gent, dated 17th April 1743, leaving “abode” and a “waggon” to Henry Jones “as before mentioned in a Deed of Settlement” (no doubt a marriage settlement prior to Henry’s marriage to Magdalene Jones in 1741) and making Lucy his daughter and her husband Rees Williams his executors. 41
Both he and Mary Edwards are described as of Eyarth in the Llanfair DC marriage register and on the birth of Edward (who died an infant in 1708) and Lucy. It is not entirely clear where Henry was born.
Edward is also included in the 1741 list of freeholders for the Denbighshire county election42 (but it is not clear which of two Edward Jones he is as both are “of Pentre Cae Heilyn” Probably the one who voted the same way as Henry Jones ie for Jacobite Sir WW Wynn, although the township is probably given wrongly as Vaynol since at that date there is no Edward Jones resident there.7
By an Act of 1695/6 Parish Constables were required to send to the Clerk of the Peace each year, a list of the persons within the parish who qualified for jury service. According to the Act of 4 and 5 Wm. and Mary c.24 (1692) jury qualification was the possession of freehold or copyhold land to the value of £6 per annum (s.15).
Edward seems to have qualified to be a juror, at least at the court leet and the Quarter Sessions if not perhaps as a juror for the what were called the Great Sessions, the equivalent of the Assizes in England). At the foot of the 1739 “Presentment” by the Ruthin Lordship, as they were called, is an Edward Jones with what appears to be “Pentre Cae Heilyn”. There is a definite “Edward Jones of Pentre Cae Heilyn” in the 1738 Presentment and he may even appear on the 1722 Presentment as “Edward Jones of Pentre”, as his father may have just died.
The qualification was lower for voting in the County seat elections and he was certainly qualified for that. From 1430 until the Reform Act of 1832, freeholders (between the ages of 21 and 70) with land worth at least 40 shillings a year (i.e. land assessed to be worth that amount if put out to rent) were entitled to vote in the elections for the Knight of the Shire to represent the County in Parliament.
From “Notes of the fines and amercements imposed in the courts leet and courts baron of the lordship of Ruthin, 1736-41,”43 it appears that the then Lord of Ruthin Lordship, John Myddleton, was successful in imposing a fine on a number of local freeholders: John Edwards of Llainwen, Edward Hughes of Pentre Celyn, John Jones of Vron, Edward Jones of Vron, David Robert of Llainwen, John Robert of Ty Cerrig, John Williams of Derwen, Edward Jones of Pentre Cae Helyn and Edward Jones of Pentre Coch, defendants in an Exchequer suit brought by him. No wonder EJ of Pentre Cae Helyn didn’t (nor any of the other defendants it seems) vote for John Myddleton in the 1741 shire election!
The record in the NLW44 makes it clear that this fine for Edward Jones was in respect of failing to turn up at the Court Leet of the Ruthin Lordship for 1739 (an amercement). The Lord of Ruthin Lordship, John Myddleton, presumably had not levied these amercements before as he took counsel’s opinion before enforcing them on whether it was legal, in 1738, from a barrister called J Ward. 45
See the freeholders list (effectively a canvass card) for the 1741 election42
This is in contrast to the freeholders list drawn up for the 1722 shire election (in 1720) 46which has him down as a supporter of Sir Robert Myddleton, John’s brother and predecessor as Lord of Ruthin Lordship, who in fact was roundly defeated by Watkins Williams Wynn in the election.47
He is also included (as “Edward Jones of Pentre”in the 1742 List of Inhabitants of Derwen Llanerch township in Llanfair DC drawn up for the Lordship of Ruthin48 .
He is described as of Pentre in the church mise accounts for 1738-1741. Also was probably a churchwarden of Llanfair Church in 1726 and 1739 . Confusingly there are two Edward Jones’ who are churchwardens at the same time!49 An extract from the Llanfair Register signed by 4 Churchwardens in 1739, includes two Edward Jones.
Both he and Mary Edwards are described as of Eyarth in the Llanfair DC marriage register and on the birth of Edward (who died an infant in 1708) and Lucy. It is not entirely clear where Henry was born.
Edward is also included in the 1741 list of freeholders for the Denbighshire county election42 (but it is not clear which of two Edward Jones he is as both are “of Pentre Cae Heilyn” Probably the one who voted the same way as Henry Jones ie for Jacobite Sir WW Wynn, although the township is probably given wrongly as Vaynol since at that date there is no Edward Jones resident there.7
By an Act of 1695/6 Parish Constables were required to send to the Clerk of the Peace each year, a list of the persons within the parish who qualified for jury service. According to the Act of 4 and 5 Wm. and Mary c.24 (1692) jury qualification was the possession of freehold or copyhold land to the value of £6 per annum (s.15).
Edward seems to have qualified to be a juror, at least at the court leet and the Quarter Sessions if not perhaps as a juror for the what were called the Great Sessions, the equivalent of the Assizes in England). At the foot of the 1739 “Presentment” by the Ruthin Lordship, as they were called, is an Edward Jones with what appears to be “Pentre Cae Heilyn”. There is a definite “Edward Jones of Pentre Cae Heilyn” in the 1738 Presentment and he may even appear on the 1722 Presentment as “Edward Jones of Pentre”, as his father may have just died.
The qualification was lower for voting in the County seat elections and he was certainly qualified for that. From 1430 until the Reform Act of 1832, freeholders (between the ages of 21 and 70) with land worth at least 40 shillings a year (i.e. land assessed to be worth that amount if put out to rent) were entitled to vote in the elections for the Knight of the Shire to represent the County in Parliament.
From “Notes of the fines and amercements imposed in the courts leet and courts baron of the lordship of Ruthin, 1736-41,”43 it appears that the then Lord of Ruthin Lordship, John Myddleton, was successful in imposing a fine on a number of local freeholders: John Edwards of Llainwen, Edward Hughes of Pentre Celyn, John Jones of Vron, Edward Jones of Vron, David Robert of Llainwen, John Robert of Ty Cerrig, John Williams of Derwen, Edward Jones of Pentre Cae Helyn and Edward Jones of Pentre Coch, defendants in an Exchequer suit brought by him. No wonder EJ of Pentre Cae Helyn didn’t (nor any of the other defendants it seems) vote for John Myddleton in the 1741 shire election!
The record in the NLW44 makes it clear that this fine for Edward Jones was in respect of failing to turn up at the Court Leet of the Ruthin Lordship for 1739 (an amercement). The Lord of Ruthin Lordship, John Myddleton, presumably had not levied these amercements before as he took counsel’s opinion before enforcing them on whether it was legal, in 1738, from a barrister called J Ward. 45
See the freeholders list (effectively a canvass card) for the 1741 election42
This is in contrast to the freeholders list drawn up for the 1722 shire election (in 1720) 46which has him down as a supporter of Sir Robert Myddleton, John’s brother and predecessor as Lord of Ruthin Lordship, who in fact was roundly defeated by Watkins Williams Wynn in the election.47
He is also included (as “Edward Jones of Pentre”in the 1742 List of Inhabitants of Derwen Llanerch township in Llanfair DC drawn up for the Lordship of Ruthin48 .
He is described as of Pentre in the church mise accounts for 1738-1741. Also was probably a churchwarden of Llanfair Church in 1726 and 1739 . Confusingly there are two Edward Jones’ who are churchwardens at the same time!49 An extract from the Llanfair Register signed by 4 Churchwardens in 1739, includes two Edward Jones.