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  • A letter from James Brown of Cwm Celyn and Blaina Iron Works, Abergavenny, to William Chambers [January 1844]. Brown had recieved a letter from Shoni Sguborfawr, begging his assistance in changing the sentence of transportation for life. Description by Evan D. Jones: 'The writer had a letter from John Jones alias Scyborfawr, begging his aid in getting a commutation of the sentence of transportation for life. He has known his the last 25 years and as he had exerted himself a few years previously (when he was a private in the 98th Foot stationed there to suppress the Scotch Cattle depredators as well as to protect the writer and his family from the summary vengeance of the mob) in procuring private information for the authorities there, the writer felt anxious to assist him. The last two or three years he had been out of his observation. He was of the opinion that he had been made the willing scapegoat of others. Jones, being fond of prize fighting and its concomitant evils was never a sticker to his work but at bottom he was possessed of parts and feelings very different from men who usually follow the course of life he had been leading. Wales had read the great lesson attempted so often in the sister country of 'Hereditary Bondsmen know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the Blow ...' The ends of justice would be fully answered by a very much shorter period of punishment'. Source: Evan D. Jones, 'A File of
Letter from James Brown, Cwm Celyn & Blaina Iron Works, to William Chambers, January 1844 [page 1 of 4]
  • A government notice issued in May 1839, offering a reward for the recapture of two local men involved in Chartist protests in Llanidloes. Shoemaker Lewis Humphreys 'of dark, forbidding countenance' was recaptured and later transported to Australia. The 'stoutly made' carpenter Thomas Jerman was never caught and escaped to America.
Chartists reward notice, Llanidloes, 1839
  • The text reads as follows: 'Colonel Kelley, who with Captain Deasey of Fenian notoriety was apprehended at Manchester September 11th 1867, was remanded until the 18th, again remanded and on the way to the prison in the prison van were rescued by a number of Fenians, when Sergeant Brett was shot thro' the head. A number of the Fenians were subsequently arrested and committed for Trial. A special Commission was appointed to try them, and five of their number were sentenced to death, two of them subsequently reprieved, one a free pardon, the other transported for life, The other three left for execution, viz. Allen Gould and Larkin. - November 23/1867. Mr Justice Blackburn and Mr Justice Mellor tried the case.'
Victorian 'mug-shot' album compiled by Denbighshire County Constabulary [vol. 1, folio 36] - Colonel Kelley, the Irish Fenian activist.