01 December 2010

COFIWN GOCH - GWYNEDD GOCH: Land And Liberty! POPULAR WELSH RESISTANCE AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ENCLOSURE OF LAND IN WELSH HISTORY. This Post Is In Support Of The 'No Cuts' Demonstration In Caernarfon 04 - 12 - 2010. C.O.R.N Riot Continues The Struggle! No Cuts and No Carve Up Of Wales!


Think of Gwynedd and most Welsh Patriots will think of Welsh Princes and Wars of Independance but there is another history we ignore at our patriotic peril! Particularly at present as personally I am more and more of the oppinion that in these times it is the Peoples History of Struggle against Tyrrany and oppression that speaks more to us than the struggles of Medieval Princes who more often as not fought each other more than the Anglo - Norman Conquistadores. 


RED REMEMBRANCER: WELSH SOCIALIST HISTORY 'GWYNEDD GOCH': THE ...

19 Sep 2010 ... Prior to this as potentially worthy of annual commemoration are the 'Enclosure Riots at Llanddeiniolen 1809' and the 'Nefyn Enclosure Riot ...
redremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../welsh-socialist-history-gwynedd-four.html - Cached

Placard In Development - See Pics Below.

So lets get to know this other history and in this instance in this blog I will focus on Gwynedd again but move on from Corn Riots of which you will find further information in blogs below:

Welsh Remembrancer.: JOIN THE CORN RIOT! - C.O.R.N - CYMRU ONWARD ...

10 Nov 2010 ... A feature today in the Independent's 'I' 'Is the British Right Really Inviting us to the Tea Party', prompted me to think up the CORN RIOT ...
welshremembrancer.blogspot.com/.../come-join-corn-party-cymru-oward-revolt.html - Cached



CAMPAIGNS CYMRU: COME JOIN THE CORN RIOT? C.O.R.N - CYMRU ONWARD ...

11 Nov 2010 ... Corn Laws As well as strikes there were food riots all over Britain . The CornLaws had an important political impact on Manchester . ...
ymgyrch.blogspot.com/.../come-join-corn-riot-corn-cymru-onward.html - Cached

Corn Riots often coincided with the struggle against Enclosures and the Resistance of small farmers and squatters 1793 - 1830, see book Before Rebecca by David Jones. However, note that there were enclosure disturbences going back to Tudor Times and Corn Riots were known to have taken place during the 18th Century in many parts of Wales. Though the years between 1793 - 1830 was the period of major popular Protests, Resistance and Riot bordering very much on open revolt but unlike Ireland never becoming an armed Rebellion for that Wales would have to wait untill 1831 and 1839. 


THE WELSH PATRIOT.: 22 February 1797 - Our Welsh Republican failiure?

15 Feb 2007 ... If taking children then do take great care as the "Rock of Garreg Wasted" is close to steep cliffs OK! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ...
welshpatriot.blogspot.com/.../22-february-1797-our-welsh-republican.html - Cached - Similar

In this post I will focus on Gwynedd which was as much to the fore in Peoples struggle as other parts of Wales, time we remembered that not least this coming Saturday in Caernarfon for which I suggest those attending make the following placard, the more the merrier as then it will really make a big point or two! Boom! Boom! Get it? You will once you see the below. See Pics below, too snowy and cold to go outside and take a photo, you will just have to make do with indoor shots. Details: I used a box some book shelves were packaged in, about 3' x 1', this made it possible for me to illustrate on both sides. I am also affixing thru the box a fishing rod which can be pulled out (note clip at top to keep in place). When put together and held up high, it will be seen for sure and if a load of them make great visual Agit - Prop Impact. Go to it, of course if as a child you watched Blue Peter all this will come easy to you. Y Urdd should produce a Mr Urdd Gonk holding a Red Pitch Fork? that gives me an idea, I will make my own Mr C.O.R.N Rebel Gonk. Coming your way soon!




ENCLOSURES.

  1. Enclosure
     - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    2.1 Anti-enclosure legislation; 2.2 Inflation and enclosure; 2.3 Enclosure riots. 2.3.1 The Midland Revolt; 2.3.2 Newton Rebellion: 8 June 1607 ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure - Cached - Similar

  2. 1812 in Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    ... December 30 - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls ...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_in_Wales - Cached

  3. Patterns of Violence in Early Tudor Enclosure Riots


    by RB Manning - 1974 - Cited by 5 - Related articles
    Enclosure riots were a prominent manifestation of social tension in ... more concretely, of the 75 cases involving enclosure riots, in 29 in- ...
    www.jstor.org/stable/4048139 - Similar
  4. Riot and Popular Protestby T Horton - 20097 Oct 2009 ... Why were there apparently more enclosure riots than food riots before 1650, and more food riots than enclosure riots in the hundred years ...www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/.../riotrebellion/riotandpp/ - Cached - Similar

  5. Parliamentary Inclosures Llyn


    The motivation behind enclosure was the improvement and more profitable use of common land. ... the prospect of dispossession loomed at Rhoshirwaun, Nefyn and Pistyll. At Lithfaenriots ensued which resulted in death sentences for the ...
    www.heneb.co.uk/llynhlc/thematicessays/inclosures.html - Cached
  6. 1812 in Wales

    Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures. Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley. Opening of: Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal between ...
    www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/1812_in_Wales - Cached


    Llithfaen Heritage Trails Milestones

    With the enclosure of common land, only those who had lived on these lands for twenty ...most of the rioters succeeded in fleeing to the mountain to hide from the horsemen. ....Buenos Aires, Palestina and Clogwyn Nefyn (Nefyn Cliff). ...
    www.tafarnyfic.com/llithfaen-heritage-trails-milestones.htm - Cached - Similar
  7. [PDF] 

    VOLUME 16 1968


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    at Pwllheli and Nefyn, together with the boats, were clearly the most highly ...... There were widespread food-riots in the years 1756 and 1757 . The sum- ... saw a very marked rise in yield in those areas where enclosure had given land ...
    www.bahs.org.uk/backnumbers/16fastview.pdf
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    1795 to 1850 emmigration from Wales to U - Immigrant Trajectories ...

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    by AK Knowles - 1995 - Cited by 7 - Related articles
    At Nefyn, a negligent commissioner failed to implement enclosure until ..... "Ryfel y Sais Bach": An Enclosure Riot on Mynydd Bach. Ceredigion 2:39-52. ...
    www.pant.org.uk/.../1795%20to%201850%20emmigration%20from%20Wales%20to%20USpd...

    G.Gruffydd.