File NLW MS 22699E - Rebecca Riots

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NLW MS 22699E

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Rebecca Riots

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  • 1843-1844 (Creation)

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41 ff. Guarded and filed

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Bought from Mr Maurice Rickards,; London,; 1989

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Correspondence relating to, and claims for, rewards offered for information leading to the conviction of Rebecca rioters (see David Williams, The Rebecca Riots (Cardiff, 1955), pp. 285-6). The majority of the letters are from George Rice Trevor, 4th baron Dynevor, to William Chambers, jnr, Llanelli. For other letters from Trevor to Chambers relating to the riots, see Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 23 (1932), 60-77. Also included are copies of the calendar of prisoners to be tried at the Carmarthenshire Spring Assizes, 1844, and of proclamations relating to the riots.

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  • English

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English

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See also NLW MS 14590E and Carmarthen Antiquary, 1 (1943 & 1944), 21-63.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22699E

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vtls004277693

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(WlAbNL)0000277693

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