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Wales glossary

Wales glossary

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Jacobean

Pertaining to the reign of King James I.

Jacobite

Sympathiser with or follower of the deposed King James II and his dynasty.

Jones, D. Gwenallt

(18991968). Welsh-language poet and writer, from Pontardawe, Glamorgan.

Jones, Fr. John

Roman Catholic priest from Clynog Fawr, Caernarfonshire. Hanged, drawn and quartered at Southwark on 12 July, 1598, for his priesthood during the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics.

Jones, Jack

(1884-1970) Novelist from Merthyr Tydfil.

Jones, Thomas

(17561820) Calvinistic minister (see Methodism).

Jones, Thomas (of Pencerrig)

(1742–1803) Landscape painter and Radnorshire squire.

Jones, William

(18091873). From Pontypool, Monmouthshire. A Chartist (see Chartism) who organised the abortive march from Pontypool to Newport during the Newport Rising, 1839. With the other leaders of the Rising, Frost, John and Williams, Zephaniah, he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death but had his punishment commuted to transportation for life. He was sent to Australia, where he spent the remainder of his life.

Jones, William (of Llangadfan)

(172695) Poet and Voltairean radical.

Justices of the peace

Magistrates; gentlemen exercising wide administrative and judicial powers in a county under commission from the Crown.