Welsh Journals

and was built within two years of his death. After the lapse of more than thirty years, a local correspondent supplying information to Lewis must have mistakenly attributed the house to William Thomas. It remains only to express one's regret that Baglan House has vanished; its demolition in 1951 brought to a close a period of exactly a century and a half during which it had graced the parish of Baglan. The Author: Dr Lynn Jones was until recently a member of the Mathematics Department at the Polytechnic of Wales, Pontypridd. His interest in history is centred mainly on that part of Glamorgan in and around the old lordship of Tir Iarll. He is currently completing a study of ecclesiastical history in his native parish of Llangynwyd. NOTES Thomas Lloyd, The Lost Houses of Wales (London, 1986). 2 A. Leslie Evans, The Story of Baglan (Port Talbot, 1970) gives an account of the parish and its notable houses. 3 Lloyd, op. cit., p.79. 4 G. C. Richards and C. L. Shadwell, The Provosts and Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford (Oxford, 1922). [N]ational [L]ibrary of [W]ales, Church in Wales, LL/QA/1, sub Aberavon with Baglan. Gentleman's Magazine, I (1800), p.489. (Note that this obituary contains errors; Thomas was never at Pembroke College, as therein stated). ibid. 8 B. H. Malkin, The Scenery, Antiquities and Biography of South Wales (London, 1804), pp. 602, 609. Samuel Lewis, Topographical Dictionary of Wales (London, 1833) sub Baglan. 10 D. W. Jones (Dafydd Morganwg), Hanes Morganwg (Aberdare, 1874), p. 221. II The surviving deeds are dispersed between three collections: at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, the Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff (formerly part of the Glamorgan Deeds series at Cardiff Central Library), and the West Glamorgan Area Record Office, Swansea. i: [W]est [Glamorgan [Rlecord [Olffice, Swansea, D/D BF El. 13 ibid, fo. 36d. 14 ibid., fo. 46. 15 NLW, Church in Wales LL/QA/10, sub Baglan. 16 WGRO, D/D BF E2, fo. 41. 17 NLW, Briton Ferry 186. 18 NLW, Briton Ferry 187. 19 The Cambrian, 24 December 1808 (and nine following issues). 20 WGRO, D/D BF 1055. 21 NLW, Briton Ferry 188. 22 [Gllamorgan [Rlecord [Olffice, D/D N 2199. 23 GRO, D/D CI 1/267.