Twm Siôn Cati's Cave

The character of Twm Siôn Cati is based on a real person named Thomas Jones (1532–1609). Jones was said to be a landowner, an antiquary, genealogist and bard, whose manuscripts are kept at the National Library of Wales. He is also recorded as marrying Joan, the daughter of John Price an advisor to Thomas Cromwell during the dissolution of the monasteries. Price was also an antiquarian and a collector of rare Welsh documents, such as the Black Book of Carmarthen. Jones is said to have been a steward who "often had recourse to the law". He is also said to have been pardoned of his offences in 1559, being named as "Thomas Johns alias Catty". corresponded with Thomas Jones, who visited Dee at…