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Newport Chartists Vol.10, p.50

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Page 1:
& I made about
a Dozen.
Witness will also
State that the
Prisr. met him
the day before
the Riots who
told him to go
to Jenkin Morgan
next Evening
He said we were
to meet some parties
and that we
were to go to
Caerleon. Witness
went to Jenkin
Morgan's House -
Sunday Night
Saw David Herring
there. Also Jenkin
Morgan and
many others
they were busy

Supports David
Herrings Statement [those two lines are written to the left of the main column of text]

Page 2:
putting on Pikes
on Poles about
7 or 8 feet long which
were brot [brought] out of
another Room in
a Bundle about
a dozen. He fixed on
the the Pikes on the Poles
on the floor by
driving nails
thro' the Iron part
when the Pikes
were more completed
the men took one
each & went out
Prisr. said to me
I must go or [] he wd
be killed Morgan
& Prisr. had
each a Pike I went
with them over
Newport Bridge
to a field which
divides the Chepstow
and Caerleon Road
behind theTurnpike

Page 3:
The weather was
very bad & wet
I saw a Bayonet
in Jenkin Morgan's
House over
the fireplacebut did not
see Morgan take
it

At top left of main text there is the following annotation:

by Hayrick in
the field

456 [In bottom left corner of right column]

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