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"Carmarthen, 17 September, 1843.

My dear Sir,

I would have written to you last night, but thought as you could do nothing to-day I might delay it. Whenever I have the official letter you say is to be sent to me, I will mention the subject of some rent to be paid by Government to the Poor Law Guardians for the use of the house. I almost doubt what Sir James will say, but I will try my best. If you will take care to exceptions I made as regards the murder at Hendy bridge, namely that no principal offender should have a share of the reward, and that no accomplice who actually fired the shot at the poor woman should derive any benefit from the pardon, you can draw the handbill yourself, and have my name put to it, and the same as to Chambers' fires - No principal offender is to have any part of the award and one who actually in any of the cases set the property on fire. I am rejoiced to hear of any thing like a scism amongst the Rebeccas. I believe with you some of the Farmers would wish now to get out of the scrape they are in. Has any information been sent to G0ovt?] about the wounded men? As I am writing quite late, pray let me have a copy of this as a memorandum in a day or two.

Yours very truly,
Geo. Rice Trevor."

[Source: George Eyre Evans, 'Rebecca Riots: Unpublished letters, 1843-44', The Transcations of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, vol. XXIII, p. 66]