Values and Standards
The standards every page of Cedwyn is held to. Cedwyn presents the evidence and lets the reader judge: it conveys, it does not conclude.
The British Army publishes six Values and three Standards as the doctrine every soldier is held to (the Army's Values and Standards of the British Army). Christian teaching names its own virtues. This page takes both as its measure and turns each into a working rule for what is published here, with how the rule shows on the site.
The Army's six Values, as editorial rules
Courage
Publish what the evidence shows, including what is unwelcome to the family, and keep asking the questions that remain open.
Evidence against the family is shown beside evidence for it, never left out (see the "found against the family" lists in 1000 Cuts).
Discipline
Every factual sentence carries its source. Facts, family testimony and theories are kept apart and labelled.
Labels used across the site: Record, Family testimony, Not yet confirmed, Theory, Open question.
Respect for Others
No named person is accused of anything a court or record has not found. People are described by what they did, on the record.
Living people are treated with dignity; private details and addresses are never published.
Integrity
No conclusion is presented as a finding. The reader is given the ingredients and reaches their own view.
Interpretation appears only as labelled working hypotheses, each with what would confirm or refute it.
Loyalty
Loyal to the record and to the family's memory alike: the family's account is set down faithfully, and the record is set beside it unaltered.
Mirrored pages and evidence are kept whole; only sentences that state a conclusion are reworded.
Selfless Commitment
The archive serves the reader and the public interest, not a side.
Records are published even when they do not help the family's case; nothing is withheld because it is unhelpful.
The Army's three Standards, as editorial rules
Lawful
Nothing published breaks the law or a court order; court decisions are reported as they were made, and as binding unless set aside.
Requests for records are made through the lawful routes (freedom of information, subject access, archives).
Acceptable Behaviour
Measured, dignified wording. No insults, no mockery, no emotive labels in our own text.
A label others applied (for example "squatters") is shown in quotation marks as theirs.
Totally Professional
Dated, sourced, consistent. Corrections are made openly and logged with their date.
Each layer carries a version number and date, and each build writes a dated report of what it changed.
Christian values, as editorial rules
Truthfulness
State only what the evidence supports, and say plainly where it stops.
"Not yet confirmed" is used wherever no source has been located.
Bearing no false witness
Never attribute words, motives or acts to anyone without a source.
Motives appear only inside labelled theories, with the evidence for and against.
Love of neighbour
Write about every person, family, company and public body as a neighbour: fairly, and as you would wish to be written about.
Institutions are described by what they did and wrote, on the dated record.
Justice
Show what was decided, what was never decided and what remains open, so that each can be weighed fairly.
1000 Cuts closes with those lists, then competing theories ranked by the evidence, the courts' view among them.
Humility
Hold theories lightly. Rank them by the evidence and change the ranking when the evidence changes.
Theories are re-ranked when new records arrive; discarded theories stay visible with the reason.
Mercy and forgiveness
Record wrongs as the evidence shows them without vengeance; leave room for answers and for reconciliation.
Every public body's reply is published beside the request it answers.
Stewardship
Care for the record as the family cared for the land: keep it whole, findable and safe for those who come after.
One catalogue database holds every artifact once; nothing is deleted.
How the site is checked
Every theme's own text is scored against five tests drawn from these rules: it cites evidence; it keeps fact apart from theory; it shows the evidence against; its tone is measured; it respects named people. A passage that fails is reworded at the next build, and the change is logged. Pages and evidence mirrored from earlier sites are never deleted.
How we treat outside records
This site is the chronology and the central record of Tŷ Mawr. It sets out our evidence and our reading of it, and it stands behind both. Narratives found elsewhere, on other websites, in catalogue summaries or in secondary books, are things we test against the records; we do not repeat them as fact.
Tŷ Mawr is first named in the record we have found in David Stewart’s 1824 survey of the Bute Glamorgan estates (Glamorgan Archives DB/E/1–2, plan 19 “Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm”, EV-0211). The Williams family acquired Tŷ Mawr in 1667 (Mary Williams’ statement, 1974 newspapers; ITV News, 1988). Bute estate documents, and other documents held by third parties, are never shown here as records of Tŷ Mawr dated before 1824. Where one is mentioned, such as the Cydwin lease or a Bute catalogue heading, it is a third-party document whose application to Tŷ Mawr is under forensic examination, and the Bute freeholds themselves are under forensic examination for validity.
The house, the town and the estate carry many names, and names and dates have been played on: Cydwin, Cydfin, Cedfin, Ked Fen, Tŷ Mawr, Great House and Great House Farm, and two different places called Llandough. Every form, with its date, its source and who wrote it, is in the register Enwau: the names of Tŷ Mawr.
Start with 1000 Cuts for the dated chronology, the Research Library for the evidence pages, and the catalogue to search every artifact.
Version 1.1.0, 26 October 2026 (adds How we treat outside records). Back to top