X/POOLE/309
COPY LETTER: Thos. Ellis of Pwllheli to Clerk of Special Sessions, Caernarfon, enclosing copy depositions taken before J.P’s 28 Jan. 1801 of Wm. Morris of the parish of Rhiw. He recently overtook a man disguised in a cartman’s frock with a Flintshire accent claiming to be a native of Blaenau Ffestiniog, but his answers to some questions raised Mr. Morris’s suspicion. On their discussing the bad state of the poor law the man prophesied a revolution. He said there were 400 people at Braich y Cafn armed with pikes. The Braich y Cefn Slate Quarry men had the support of colliers in Flintshire and Denbighshire and they had worked out a plan of action in case of attack by the military. The man claimed to be seeking work in Denbighshire but his hands were white and delicate and he was not a labourer. Another man, John Roberts of Bryncroes, also can substantiate many of these facts about the planned uprising. (No. X/POOLE/1).
Cyngor Gwynedd