You have no idea how the poor Welsh were oppressed by those gates, aye, and the rich too.

The little people and farmers could not carry their produce to market owing to the exactions at the gates, which devoured all the profit and sometimes more.

So that the markets were not half supplied, and people with money could frequently not get what they wanted.

Complaints were made to government, which not being attended to, Rebecca and her byddinion made their appearance at night, and broke the gates to pieces with sledge-hammers, and everybody said it was gallant work, everybody save the keepers of the gates and the proprietors.

Not only the poor but the rich, said so.