| AdminHistory | Peacock, a native of Barnlie, Co. Clare, settled at Plas Llanfair, Llanedwen, and played a considerable part in the public life on Anglesey. As commanding offcer of the island's military forces, however, he appears to have incensed some of the native gentry by his action in raising four companies of volunteers composed for the most part of Irishmen, and persuading the Lord Lieutenant, Sir Nicholas Bayly, to incorporate them in the Anglesey Militia. Particularly affronted by this action was Captain Herbert Jones of Llynon, who figures prominently in these papers as the victim of an anonymous and virulent libel, of which Peacock was rightly deemed to be the author. Jones, in turn, submitted to the Secretary for War a series of grave charges against Peacock - including those of illtreating the men under his command, of withholding their pay, and of making false returns of officers. As a result the commandant was tried by court-martial and sentenced to be cashiered. The King as Commander-in-Chief, however, almsot immediately remitted the sentence |