The town has remained part of the Monmouth constituency in subsequent elections, although the constituency boundary has changed several times.

So long as Charles II remained on the throne, Monmouth was content to live a life of pleasure in Holland, while still hoping to accede peaceably to the throne.

The town has remained within the Monmouth constituency in subsequent elections, although the constituency boundary has changed several times.

Pat Choate in an April 28, 2010 interview with Monmouth University's student newspaper remained suspicious of the Tea Party movement, saying: " At these Party events, a professional Republican always speaks.

Caerwent remained an important centre, where the road between Gloucester and Caerleon met the north-south road from Shrewsbury, via Monmouth and Trellech, to the sea at Portskewett.

congregation ”, but rejected the traditional model which encourages rabbis to look for larger pulpits and remained at Monmouth Reform Temple, a congregation of 365 families, where she “ forged a creative partnership with ... her congregation, acting upon her belief that a rabbi's primary task is to help Jews take responsibility for their Judaism ”.

He was a strong partisan of King James II, and in 1685 was one of the principal supporters of the act of attainder against the Duke of Monmouth ; but he remained in England when William III ascended the throne in the Revolution of 1688.

According to the 2001 census, Monmouth had relatively high proportions of its population working in the retail and wholesale sectors of the economy ( 19. 5 %, compared with 16. 3 % for Wales as a whole ), education ( 11. 8 %, compared with 8. 1 % across Wales ), and property services ( 10. 8 %, compared with 8. 5 % across Wales ).

Monmouth is home to Monmouth Town F. C., a football club founded around 1905 and enjoying a relatively successful run of form.

The first known settlement at Monmouth was the small Roman fort of Blestium, one of a network of military bases established on the frontiers of the Roman occupation.

A small Regimental Museum established in 1989 is housed in Great Castle House, a former town house built on the site of part of Monmouth Castle.

Monmouth Beach is a small beach town located on the Jersey Shore.

In May 1685, Monmouth set sail for South West England, a strongly Protestant region, with three small ships, four light field guns and 1500 muskets.

The precursor to the modern tuque was a small, round, close-fitting hat, brimless or with a small brim known as a Monmouth cap.

Monmouth University opened in 1856 with a small number of students.

Chapter 28 of the 1535 Act of Henry VIII, which provided that Monmouth, as county town, should return one burgess to Parliament, further stated that other ancient Monmouthshire boroughs were to contribute towards the payment of the member.

Monmouth ( ; Welsh: Trefynwy meaning " town on the Monnow ") is a traditional county town in southeast Wales.

Monmouth later became a tourist centre at the heart of the Wye Valley, as well as a market town.

Excavations undertaken by the Monmouth Archaeological Society on sites along Monnow Street have uncovered a wealth of information about the early history of the town.

The only evidence of continuing settlement at Monmouth is a record of a 7th century church, at an unknown location within the town, dedicated to the Welsh saint Cadoc.

A town grew up around it, and a Benedictine priory was established around 1075 by Withenoc, a Breton who became lord of Monmouth after Roger, the son of William fitzOsbern, was disgraced.

From the 14th century onwards, the town became noted for the production of woollen Monmouth caps.

However, as a border town, its prosperity suffered after nearby areas, including Usk and Grosmont, were devastated through attacks by supporters of Owain Glyndŵr around 1405, though Monmouth itself did not come under attack.

A new shire was created covering the area west of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, and Monmouth became its county town.

In 1605, James I granted Monmouth a town charter by letters patent.

Monmouth castle was slighted after the wars ended, but the town itself grew in prosperity.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Monmouth had close links with the Rolls family, who built a mansion at The Hendre just outside the town.

The other station at Monmouth was Monmouth May Hill on the Ross and Monmouth Railway, built on the opposite bank of the River Wye to the town centre.

Monmouth had a mayor and burgesses in mediaeval times, and the town gained its first charter, from Henry VI, in 1447.

In 1974 that Corporation was abolished, and the town became part of the much larger Monmouth District ( becoming Monmouth Borough in 1988 ), which until 1996 formed one of the five districts of Gwent.

In elections for the Welsh Assembly, the town is part of the Monmouth constituency ; the current AM is Nick Ramsay ( Conservative ).

Ecclesiastically, until 1836 the town of Monmouth fell within the diocese of Hereford, rather than that of Llandaff.

Mrs. Monmouth thought of him as her discovery, and she paid two to three hundred dollars for a painting.

The fireplace had tiles made for Mrs. Monmouth by Picasso himself.

This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the Archbishop of Wales.

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

By summer 1777, however, Washington had rebuilt his strength and his confidence ; he stopped using raids and went for large-scale confrontations, as at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Yorktown.

The English Civil War ( also known as the Great Rebellion ) was still within living memory for most of the major English participants in the events of 1688, and for them, in comparison to that war ( or even the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 ) the deaths in the conflict of 1688 were mercifully few.

According to the legendary Historia Regum Britanniae, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, London was founded by Brutus of Troy after he defeated the incumbent giants Gog and Magog and was known as, ( Latin for New Troy ), which, according to a pseudo-etymology, was corrupted to Trinovantum.

Many of the later sources may also have formed part of a propaganda effort designed to create a history for the people of Ireland that could bear comparison with the mythological descent of their British invaders from the founders of Rome that was promulgated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others.

They include " Kadeir Teyrnon " (" The Chair of the Prince "), which refers to " Arthur the Blessed ", " Preiddeu Annwn " (" The Spoils of Annwn "), which recounts an expedition of Arthur to the Otherworld, and " Marwnat vthyr pen " (" The Elegy of Uther Pen "), which refers to Arthur's valour and is suggestive of a father-son relationship for Arthur and Uther that pre-dates Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford | H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902

" Foot joined the Labour Party and first stood for parliament at the age of 22 in the 1935 general election, when he contested Monmouth.

When Charles's illegitimate son Monmouth assembled an invasion force at Amsterdam, and sailed for Britain, William informed James of Monmouth's departure, and ordered English regiments in the Low Countries to return to Britain.

* June 11 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland, lands at Lyme Regis with an invasion force brought from the Netherlands to challenge his uncle, James II, for the Crown of England.

Tyndale preached and studied " at his book " in London for some time, relying on the help of a cloth merchant, Humphrey Monmouth.

The Duke of Monmouth used " soho " as a rallying call for his men at the Battle of Sedgemoor, half a century after the name was first used for this area of London.

Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled mainly due to the Rye House Plot, with The Earl of Melville, The Earl of Leven, Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, both being implicated escaped to the United Provinces and Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell being executed for treason.

Henry was born in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle ( and for that reason was sometimes called Henry of Monmouth ).

Indeed, the Council for British Archaeology have designated Monmouth as one of the top ten towns in Britain for archaeology.

The priory may have once been the residence of the monk Geoffrey of Monmouth, who was born around 1100 and is best known for writing the chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae (" History of the Kings of Britain ").