This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler. [Picture: Disembarkation] THE FISHGUARD INVASION BY THE FRENCH IN 1797 * * * * * SOME PASSAGES TAKEN FROM THE DIARY OF THE LATE REVEREND DANIEL ROWLANDS, SOMETIME VICAR OF LLANFIANGELPENYBONT * * * * * London T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE MDCCCXCII Dedicated BY PERMISSION TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CAWDOR CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 9 WEDNESDAY. _THE FIRST DAY_. CHAP. I. THREE FRIGATES 43 II. THE LANDING 54 III. THE FATE OF THE CLOCK 75 IV. THE PRIEST’S PEEP-HOLE 88 THURSDAY. _THE SECOND DAY_. V. DAVY JONES’ LOCKER 109 VI. WELSH WIVES 125 VII. GENERAL TATE’S LETTER 139 FRIDAY. _THE THIRD DAY_. VIII. THE GATHERING AT GOODWICH 159 IX. THE CAPITULATION 171 X. TREHOWEL ONCE MORE 180 SEQUEL. _THE GOLDEN PRISON AT PEMBROKE_. XI. THE GENERAL THANKSGIVING 193 XII. INSIDE THE GOLDEN PRISON 204 XIII. AWAY! AWAY!! 222 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. THE DISEMBARKATION (_From an old print_) _Frontispiece_ STAND OF ARMS IN TENBY MUSEUM 20 THE FRENCH FRIGATES (_From an old print_) 43 CARREGWASTAD 54 COTTAGE AT CASTELL 75 A RANSACKED FARMHOUSE 109 THE “ROYAL OAK” AT FISHGUARD 139 TREHOWEL: GENERAL TATE’S HEADQUARTERS 184 INTRODUCTION. The very curious incident related in the following narrative took place nearly a hundred years ago, and, as men’s memories are short, and the whole affair reads like fiction—and very improbable and imaginative fiction—it may be as well to write a few lines of introduction, and to give my authorities for the facts mentioned in the story.