Newport Chartists Vol.15, p.44

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Regina v Z Williams

[ in left margin / agst lines 2-4]
See the latter
part of this:
important

[indented]
James James I am a Miner - I live at the Blaina
near Mr Brewer's New Works - I was at the
Royal Oak on Sunday morning the 3rd instant
at 10 o'Clock - I went home and had
my dinner and went back to the Royal
Oak again - It was past 3 - The
Royal Oak is kept by Prisoner - I saw
Prisoner there each time - I saw
nothing particular at the House - some
man from Blackwood was there the
Second time he was there - He was
Speaking - He told us to meet at the
Mountain at 6 o'Clock that Evening
- the Prisoner also told them the same -
and that they should hear all the
secret when they got to the top of
the Mountain - and that they were to
bring every thing that they could get in
their hand to defend themselves
with - I remained at the Royal Oak
for nearly an hour and then went
home and had some victuals -
I went to the Mountain after 5 o'Clock
that Evening - I met a great many
people on the way - some hundreds -
some had Arms - some Guns, pikes &c -
It was a very dark rainy night and I
could not see very well - When I got
to the Mountain there were a good
many hundreds of people there - I
I heard Prisoner speaking - I could not
see him - I cannot swear that the

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voice was Prisoner's voice - I cannot recollect -
a word he said - He left the mountain
and went down to the Road - the Tram
Road - I saw Zephaniah Williams on the
Tram Road - I was about 200 yards from
Prisoner - When we came to the Tram Road
a man who was passing by said - "What do ^you
do with such a small body of men as these"
addressing Prisoner - Prisoner said "there was
no danger of losing any lives" - I went on with
them nearly a mile, and then turned into a
a public House - the House was full of men -
saw some arms there - I don't know who keeps
the House - I don't know any of the men who
were there - I remained in the House I should
think for more than two hours - Whilst I was in
the House they came and fetched me out again -
I don't know who they were - I went with them -
then I came to the Park - I saw a great many
people there - a thousand I should think - and
there were thousands coming on after me -
I did not stop in the Park - I came on to
Newport - I came so far as the middle of Stow
Hill - I then saw the men running back towards
me - I heard the firing - I ran down a steep
street on Stow Hill and went back home -
I didn't see the Prisoner all the way along - not
after I left on the Tram Road near lower Ebbw
Vale -

___ Witness will produce a paper (List of 10 & a Captn)
I have attended ^ the Chartist Lodge at Williams's house & have had
a Card & paid money - about a month previous to the 3 d Novr
it was not a Lodge night I went to
to have some beer - I saw Zephaniah Williams in a small room

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_______________________assented to become

William Davies who had a Captain of
10. by arrangement amongst the others whilst at work
________________________________________cards of the
asked me to go to Zephaniah's house with the ^ other men
(mentioned in the paper) & get a List of them made out -
I went there and asked him to make the List - He said
he was too busy and told me to go his Son - I went
& gave Llewellyn the cards & /.../... [*] he made
out the list I produced - he wrote it in my presence -
I had the cards back
^ & I gave them and the list to Wm Jenkins to leave
at the house of John Davis Jonathan for Wm Davis -
In about a fortnight after Wm Davis refused to take the
List - Wm Jenkins brought it back to me with the cards
I gave the cards to the paries in the List - I left the
list - It dropt once out of his trouser's
pocket once while they were drying & somebody
picked it up & gave it to my wife - I can swear
it is the same - I cannot read but I know
my own number 89 & I know two Js
because I mark my name with those letters -

[in left margin]
Wm Davies [agst line 3]
Wm Jenkins [agst lines10-12]
to be sent
for.

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[across 2nd paper fold]
Regina [overwritten with large X, red tick alongside]
v
Z Williams

Examn
Jas James
Blaina [in red ink]
Wm Jenkins
to be sent for
to corroborate
Ja[me]s
Briefed 9/1/40
JR