Note 143 — Chapter VII
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‘Two Llancaiach men named Servis and Humphrey were arrested for fighting. They had been to a funeral, had done the customary honours by the remains of the departed brother or sister who had suffered, died, and was “chested,” and then, after drowning their grief in the “cwrw,” finished up in the police-court with a finale involving the payment of 5s. and costs, and 8s. 8d. damage, or in default twenty-one days’ hard labour.’—‘Western Mail,’ Jan. 31, 1877.