William Jones was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  between 1647 and 1648.

Jones was the son of Sir William Jones  and his wife Margaret Griffith, daughter of Griffith ap John Griffith of Kevenamulch, Carnarvonshire. His father was a judge and MP. Jones was a barrister and he and his brother Charles

Charles Jones (MP for Beaumaris)

Charles Jones was a Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1640.Jones was the son of Sir William Jones and his wife Margaret Griffith, daughter of Griffith ap John Griffith of Kevenamulch, Carnarvonshire. His father was a judge and MP. Jones...

 were joint prothonotaries and clerks of the crown for Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire but surrendered the positions in November 1636. In 1647, Jones was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Beaumaris

Beaumaris (UK Parliament constituency)

Beaumaris was a parliamentary borough in Anglesey, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1553, then to the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885, when the constituency...

 in the Long Parliament

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. He was excluded from sitting under Pride's Purge

Pride's Purge

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 in the following year.

Jones became recorder of Shrewsbury

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on 1 March 1655 and held the position until 1660.