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William Henry Williams of the Parish of
Saint Woolos in the Borough of Newport Accountant (a Special Constable)
states - About 4 in the afternoon of the 4th November last I received orders
from the Magistrates to go and search for Gunpowder which they had been
informed was secreted in a Hay rick to the left of Etheridges house - I
I accordingly went accompanied by William Nicholas Morgan and Edward
Hopkins the Police Superintendent - In the Rick referred to we found
no powder but 2 Pike heads with cross pieces - of a very dangerous description
Mr Hopkins took possession of them - I should know the sort again -
After the others had left I went into a field behind the Turnpike between
the Caerleon and Chepstow road and looked about for powder but
found none But in a ditch near a Hay rick there I found two pike
handles^made of ash one of which had a socket for a pike head and the other had a
bayonet fixed on it - they were about eight feet long- I took them to the
Westgate - I afterwards took one of the handles to Monmouth and left it
in the Court there - In the last mentioned field I saw a great many
foot prints as if people had been walking about there.

_____________________Wm. H. Williams

Moses Scard will prove the Riots at Newport
on the 4th November

[in left margin]
Witness found
a Pike which
he will produce
as having been
found in the
field referred
to by Herring &
Brickley as
like the one Jenkin
Morgan took
away when he
went to John
Gibby the Prisr__ (x)

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Reg.
v
Jenkin Morgan

Evidence of
Wm Hy Williams