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Llythyr oddi wrth y Cyrnol Trevor (Arglwydd Dinefwr) at [?William Chambers], 19 Gorffennaf 1844 [tudalen 1 o 3]

Disgrifiadau

Adysgrif:

"Arweinydd Rebecca" [a sonir amdano yn y llythyr hwn] oedd David Evans, a wynebodd Syr Robert Monsy Rolfe, ym Mrawdlysoedd yr Haf yng Nghaerfyrddin ar 13 Gorffennaf, 1844. Fe'i rhoddwyd ar brawf am fod yn gysylltiedig â thynnu Giât Llanfihangel-ar-Arth i lawr a'i dinistrio ar 16 Gorffennaf, ac fe'i cafwyd yn "guilty of being in the company, but not guilty of demolishing." Ar Ddydd Mercher, 17 Gorffennaf fe'i rhoddwyd ar brawf unwaith eto am ddinistrio Giât Gwarallt. Methodd y rheithgor â dod i benderfyniad er gwaethaf trafod drwy'r nos, felly rhyddhaodd y Barnwr y carcharor ond dywedodd wrtho y gellid galw arno i sefyll ei brawf yn y Brawdlys nesaf neu unrhyw un arall ar yr un cyhuddiad o flaen rheithgor gwahanol."

Adysgrif:

"Hyde Park Gardens,
19 July, 1844.

My dear Sir,

The account is correct you send me as to 10s. being due for the conveyance of the Troop carriage from Swansea to Llanelly. Will you be kind enough to pay the money and remind me to pay it you again.

I am sorry to have missed seeing you at Carmarthen, though we had but little business. I am sorry to say our Petty Jury disgraced themselves most terribly in acquitting a Rebecca leader, in spite of his own acknowledgment of having been present at the time a Toll-house was destroyed, on which occasion two witnesses swore he was actively engaged. He said "I did no more that the others" who, however, pulled the house down amongst them.

Yours 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[Ffynhonnell: George Eyre Evans, 'Rebecca Riots: Unpublished letters, 1843-44', Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Soceity and Field Club, cyfrol XXIII, tudalennau 76-77]

Owner:
Carmarthenshire Archives Service
Crëwr:
Trevor, George Rice
Gwybodaeth drwydded
Reproduced by permission of Gwasanaeth Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin
Copyright Details:
Gwasanaeth Archifau Sir Gaerfyrddin 2003
Publisher Ref:
GTJ09537
Eitem wedi’i llwytho:
28/1/2010
Date originally created:
19/7/1844
Gwelediadau:
761
Ffefrynnau:
0

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