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Schedule of Chartist prisoners, Special Commission, 1839, with J. E. W. Roll's doodles [image 1 of 2]
Extracts from the schedule of Chartist prisoners, Special Commission, 1839 [image 1 of 2]
  • Letter from Hugh Williams, lawyer from Carmarthen, to William Chambers. He expresses his regrets at the recent attacks by Rebecca. Williams, who was known to have strong connections with the Chartist movement, came to be regarded by many as the 'instigator and undiscovered leader of the Rebecca Movement'. Description by Evan D. Jones: 'He [Hugh Williams] regretted acutely the excessive goings on and particularly the outrages which had been committed on the recipients of property. He had not the incentives alluded and every consideration of interest and of humanity induced him to hope and to exert himself to stem the torrent that seemed to threaten the country'. Source: Evan D. Jones, 'A File of
Letter from Hugh Williams to William Chambers [1843] [page 1 of 2]
  • This photograph shows the interior and staff of the county gaol at Montgomery. It was used to incarcerate lawbreakers from the county between 1832 and 1878. Some of those involved in the famous Chartist riots at Llanidloes in 1839 were held here.
Interior of Montgomery county gaol, c. 1875
  • 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
'Attack on the Westgate Hotel, Newport by the Chartists, 4 November 1839' by W. Howell, c. 1840-50 (oils)