Llythyr oddi wrth y Cyrnol Trevor (Arglwydd Dinefwr) at William Chambers, 6 Gorffennaf 1843 [tudalen 1 o 4]

Disgrifiad

Disgrifiad gan George Eyre Evans (cyfieithiad):

"Ar 5 Gorffennaf, ffurfiodd Cyrnol Love, Pennaeth yr ardal, wal filwrol o amgylch ardal y terfysg; gosodwyd mintai a oedd yn cynnwys 120 o'r llynges Frenhinol, o dan arweinyddiaeth yr Uwchgapten Whylock, a ddaeth o Ystordai Arfau Penfro yn y stemar Confiance i Aberteifi. Gosodwyd y rhain o dan arweinyddiaeth Love.

Rhwng 6 Gorffennaf a 10 Awst, dyddiad y llythyr nesaf, dymchwelwyd 38 o gatiau, barrau a thai, gan gynnwys Aberayron [Aberaeron] (dwy giât), Abergwili, Alltfawr (a thŷ), Bolgoed (bar a thŷ), Gwarallt, Llandeilo Rhwnws (tollty), Llannon (giât a thŷ), Minke, New Inn, Penygarn, Pompren, Pontarllechan, Pontyberem, Porthyrhyd (a thŷ), Pumfry, Pumpsaint, Red Lion, Sandy Limekiln (a thŷ), Ty-coch, Tyllwyd (a thŷ), ac Ystrad-feiris."

Adysgrif:

"Penycoed, St. Clears,
6 July, 1843.

My dear Sir,

N.B.- I return to Carmarthen tomorrow. Having been writing a great deal lately I unfortunately have neglected (not, however, willingly, but from forgetfulness) to reply to your letter of the 10th inst., which I have this moment looked over again with some others.

You are quite at liberty to offer a reward for the detection of the parties concerned in the gate breaking near you. This is the Government has authorised, and perhaps the Trust would add something also. The Government reward would be fifty pounds. If you can catch the parties I should certainly recommend they should be committed for the offence of breking down the House, but you must be careful to comply most strictly with the terms of the Statute; as it will not do to let them have a loophole to creep you at.

I am sorry to find that two gates were broken on Tuesday night last near Mr. Saunder's, Maencae and Pontyates.

Your plan of ciruclating handbills is very good.

Mr Chambers will have received, I hope, by this time, some copies of my address to the county. I sent them to him as I understood from the Petty Sessions Clerk that he was the Chairman.

I return to Carmarthen to-morrow.

Yours very truly
Geo. Rice Trevor."

[Ffynhonnell: George Eyre Evans, 'Rebecca Riots: Unpublished letters, 1843-44', Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Soceity and Field Club, cyfrol XXIII, tudalennau 61-2]