BOOK LAUNCH: THE COMMON PLACE BOOK OF JOHN GWIN
BOOK LAUNCH: THE COMMON PLACE BOOK OF JOHN GWIN Published by the South Wales Record Society Members of the South Wales Record Society can also pick their own copies up at the launch at Llangwm Village Hall is on the B4235 Usk-Chepstow road and there is a car park a little further along the road to Chepstow, at postcode NP15 1HQ. The book is available in paperback or hardback, xii + 212 pages, illustrated. Copies can also be ordered through the Society’s web site at http://www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/ or by post: £18 paperback, £28 hardback for addresses in the UK, with reductions for members of the Society. Complete and return the form to the West Glamorgan Archive Service, Civic Centre, Oystermouth Road, Swansea SA1 3SN. J ohn Gwin lived at Llangwm near Usk in the middle years of the seventeenth century. His commonplace book is a treasure trove of medical remedies, snippets of local and family history, notes on the management of the Worcester estates, poetry by the leadi