Taking goods and household possessions away by force from people who would not or could not pay fines in money. Particularly associated with refusal to pay tithes in north Wales in the 1880s and 1890s.

One of the great mendicant orders of friars. Founded by St Dominic (1221). (See also Franciscans.)

In March 1834 six Dorchester labourers were sentenced to seven years' transportation to a penal colony in Australia for organising trade union activities in the Dorsetshire village of Tolpuddle. Great public demonstrations resulted eventually in the remittance of the sentences.

A widow’s share of her late husband’s property.

One of the four great ironworks of Merthyr Tydfil, along with Cyfarthfa, Penydarren and Plymouth (ironworks).

Christian Mirror. Published in 1585, at the height of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, the Drych contains key teachings of the Catholic Church in Welsh.