crime and punishment - welsh examples

what was heresy/treason?

heresy - going against the religion of the monarchy

treason - going against the country

what are welsh examples of heresy and treason?

heresy - rawlins white

treason - richard gwyn / john penry

what was smuggling?

illegal importation of goods into the country (tea, spirits, lace, tobacco)

what are the welsh examples of smuggling?

brandy cove (gower)

cardigan bay

pembrokshire

what is a welsh example of crime associated with urbanisation?

‘china’, merthyr

what is the welsh example of industrial protests of the nineteenth century?

chartists in newport & llanidloes (1839)

what was a rural protest in the nineteenth century?

rebecca riots

what were the traditional community methods of punishment in wales up until the 1840s?

ceffyl pren (rural) & scotch cattle (industrial)

which welsh gaols did reformer john howard visit? (1770s)

caernarfon and swansea castle

how many transportees from the 1700s-1860s were welsh?

1.2%

john frost

lewis lewis