Chartist Trials blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: The White Swan Inn on this site was appropriated by a Troop of the 12th Lancers while the Chartist Trials took place in the Shire Hall in 1840. They patrolled all the approach roads to Monmouth. Recorded plaque organisation: Monmouth Civic Society.

The Chartist Trials of 1840 were a series of legal proceedings against leaders of the Chartism movement, a major working-class radical movement for political reform in Britain; these trials reflected the government's response to the perceived threat of Chartist agitation.