The penultimate chapter in my new book. Twelfth Night or Old Christmas Day as it was sometimes known falls on the 6th January. Before the Calendar Act in 1751 Christmas was celebrated on the equivalent of the 6th January by our modern calendar. Mentions of Twelfth Night in Monmouthshire's old newspapers tend to concentrate on the celebrations at Tredegar house which were marked with extensive hospitalities by Sir Charles Morgan. Races took place in the park between amateur jockeys and in the evening principle families from Monmouthshire were invited to a grand fancy dress ball. Supper was laid out on a table with elaborate decorations and the centrepiece was the Twelfth Night cake. The poor were also not forgotten and left Tredegar House with warm clothes provided by Sir Charles Morgan in 1831
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