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remarkable. They relate mainly to Sir Brooke Boothby's ancestor, Colonel Philip Jones, who purchased the Fonmon Castle Estate in 1658. He was Parliamentarian and trusted friend of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector. As Comptroller of Cromwell's household, he organised Cromwell's funeral, the archive containing a mercer's bill for velvet and other cloth purchased by Jones so that Cromwell's mourners could be appropriately (and expensively) dressed. There are also lawsuits and legal papers arising from disputes between Colonel Jones and the enemies that he made during the Commonwealth period. Other seventeenth- century documentation came to the Jones family through Robert Jones Ill's marriage to the heiress, Jane Seys of Boverton, in 1762. This includes letters of the 1640s between Evan Seys in London and his father-in-law, Robert Bridges in Gloucester, with news of Parliament and the Civil War. In common with most Record Offices, the Glamorgan Record Office does not have a purchase fund. To retain the Fonmon Archive it had to raise money by public appeal and by applying for grants. It set about this task as soon as it received the Glamorgan Archives Joint Committee's permission (on 3 February 1995). An appeal leaflet was printed and distributed; exhibitions were prepared and arrangements made for their display at venues in Mid and South Glamorgan; and about 350 letters were sent to local history societies, businesses and other organisations. With the help of Mid Glamorgan County Council's Public Relations Unit, media interest was sustained for the whole of the Appeal's duration: there were articles in the local press and features on radio and television. In its campaign to retain the Fonmon Archive, the Glamorgan Record Office received the very considerable help of a committee of volunteers, established at a public meeting held on 16 March 1995. The committee's activities centred on investigating and recommending sources of funding. Later it turned to fund- raising activities, including a raffle which was drawn in the Record Office on 1 1 September 1995. The committee's membership included representatives of local and family history societies; former members of the Record Office staff; and members of the Glamorgan Archives Joint Committee. They all gave unstintingly of their time and influence to publicise the Appeal and encourage individuals and organisations to support it. The Record Office paid Sotheby's invoice for £ 75,000 on 14 September 1995. Of this figure, 53% was donated by national grant-giving bodies, namely the V. and A. Purchase Grant Fund, the Pilgrim Trust and the Friends of the National Libraries. 37 per cent was provided by local authorities (Ogwr Borough Council, the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council; and Mid and South Glamorgan County Councils in the form of the Record Office's underspend in 1994/95). The Record Office suffered the disappointment of an unsuccessful application to the Heritage