The Newtons of Pembrokeshire and the West Country in the Fifteenth Century: Identity and Political Allegiance

The age of immigration and settlement in Wales was followed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by an age of social mobility in which a number of families of Welsh and immigrant heritage were able to migrate to English shires, towns and ports, most successfully after the Glyndŵr revolt. They might change their names and alter their identities, make fortunes and adopt political allegiances in new environments; some maintained contact with their homelands, others not. Three generations of Newtons of Pembrokeshire are an example of this mobility and social transformation in the fifteenth century.