Cymraeg
The Accused
The Crime
The Details
From file: 4/629/3
Document: 46 1
Dec 31, 1794
Crime

Glamorgan, Cardiff

Forgery of an affidavit admitting accused as an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital and obtaining by means thereof hospital. Prisoner aged 34. Indictment missing. more

Offence type: Offences against the State and against the currency
Specific offence: Forgery

Accused
John Harrington, Soldier
Glamorgan, Cardiff
Plea:
Prosecutor
John Beynon, Neath, esq?
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

Other:
Ca, A, E/I

  • 1 Details about offence are given but there is no indictment. In such cases 'No indictment' will be included in the 'Crime' field.
From file: 4/389/7
Document: 6
Jan 31, 1795
Crime

Brecon, Llanafan Fawr

Receiving stolen goods, 60 pairs of stockings. Prosecutor had delivered goods to a carrier who deposited them in a barn, from where prisoner's son and another person stole them. Prisoner threatened by her son, that he would 'break her Bones' if she failed to sell some goods. No indictment against her son William Watts the younger nor against his accomplice Evan Evans of Llanafan Fawr, yeoman, but see no. 7 in this file. more

Offence type: Capital offences against property
Specific offence: Receiving stolen goods (both felonies and larcenies)

Accused
Margaret Watts, Married
Brecon, Llanafan Fawr
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Thomas Evans, Rhaeadr, co. Rad, hosier
Result

Verdict:
Not guilty.

Punishment:

Other:
E, R, J

From file: 4/277/4
Document: 48
Feb 3, 1795
Crime

Caernarfon, Caernarfon

Assault on prosecutor, who had 'used abusive and severe reflections against Thomas Williams, esq., prisoner's father, and had 'declared that the said Thomas Williams should not live'. Prisoner lived at Marlow Place. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
Owen Williams, Esq.
Outside Wales, Great Marlow, co. Bucks. 1
Plea: Guilty.
Prosecutor
John Hughes, gent.
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:
Fined

Other:
A, Al,R

  • 1 Parish given in related documents within the same Gaol File preferred over parish given in the indictment.
From file: 4/277/4
Document: 48
Feb 3, 1795
Crime

Caernarfon, Caernarfon

Assault. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
Rev. John Royle, Clergyman
Outside Wales, Hilgay, co. Norfolk 1
Plea:
Prosecutor
John Hughes, gent.
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

Other:
A

  • 1 Parish given in related documents within the same Gaol File preferred over parish given in the indictment.
From file: 4/531/3
Document: 5
Feb 5, 1795
Crime

Radnor, Rhulen

Cutting down trees. Prisoner died of natural causes in goal in November 1797. more

Offence type: Others
Specific offence: Cutting down trees

Accused
Jeremiah Bevan, Labourer
Radnor, Rhulen
Plea:
Prosecutor
Humphrey Meredith, Llanbadarn Garreg, farme
Result

Verdict:
No prosecution, convicted on another indict

Punishment:

Other:
I/Cp, R; Iq(in 4/531/10)

From file: 4/64/3
Document: 9
Feb 9, 1795
Crime

Denbigh, Ruthin

Uttering a counterfeit shilling. more

Offence type: Offences against the State and against the currency
Specific offence: Uttering

Accused
Samuel Jose Steel, Labourer
Denbigh, Ruthin
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Robert Phillips
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.

Punishment:

From file: 4/64/4
Document: 20
Feb 9, 1795
Crime

Denbigh, Marchwiail

Assault on William Roberts by riding his horse against and over him on the highway. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Assault (including wounding, but not malicious wounding)

Accused
Edward Evans, Yeoman
Denbigh, Marchwiail
Plea:
Prosecutor
Thomas Roberts
Result

Verdict:

Punishment:

From file: 4/64/3
Document: 9
Feb 9, 1795
Crime

Denbigh, Ruthin

Uttering a counterfeit shilling. more

Offence type: Offences against the State and against the currency
Specific offence: Uttering

Accused
Thomas Jones, Labourer
Denbigh, Ruthin
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Robert Phillips
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.

Punishment:

From file: 4/1013/3
Document: 7
Feb 21, 1795
Crime

Flint, Ysgeifiog

Infanticide of her female bastard child by assaulting her, lacerating the umbilical cord by which act the child bled to death. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Infanticide, i.e. new born child murder (including concealing birth)

Accused
Elizabeth Jones, Servant 1
aka Betty Jones 2
Flint, Ysgeifiog
Plea:
Prosecutor
Robert Davies
Result

Verdict:
No true bill - no evidence.

Punishment:

Other:
D, R, Iq

  • 1 Occupation / Status given in related documents within the same Gaol File preferred over that given in the indictment.
  • 2 Alias added from other related document(s) within the same Gaol File.
From file: 4/629/3
Document: 42
Feb 22, 1795
Crime

Glamorgan, Caerau

Infanticide of her female bastard child by strangulation. Prisoner aged 19. more

Offence type: Offences against the person (excluding sexual offences)
Specific offence: Infanticide, i.e. new born child murder (including concealing birth)

Accused
Margaret Prothero, Spinster
Glamorgan, Caerau
Plea:
Prosecutor
Morgan Miles
Result

Verdict:
No true bill.

Punishment:

Other:
Iq, Ca.

From file: 4/531/3
Document: 3
Feb 22, 1795
Crime

Radnor, Clyro

Theft of food, corn more

Offence type: Larcenies
Specific offence: Theft of food, including harvested crops

Accused
Richard Davies, Labourer
Radnor, Clyro
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
Henry Prichard, Clyro, yeoman
Result

Verdict:
Guilty.

Punishment:
Imprisonment until he joined the Navy1

Other:
E, I/Cp, R, J

  • 1 Sentence added from related document(s) within Great Sessions records other than Gaol Files.
From file: 4/277/4
Document: 26
Feb 26, 1795
Crime

Caernarfon, Pwllheli

Food riot. Riotously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Thomas William Thomas, Pwllheli, mariner, and taking and carrying away butter therefrom belonging to prosecutor. more

Offence type: Riots and other public order offences
Specific offence: Riots, food (but not theft during a food riot for which see 'theft of food')

Accused
Evan Hughes, Slater
Caernarfon, Pwllheli
Plea: Not guilty.
Prosecutor
William David, yeoman
Result

Verdict:
Not guilty.

Punishment:

Other:
R, J, W(in 4/278/1)