Newport Chartists Vol.4, p.19

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Reg[ina] v[ersu]s Henry Frost

Henry Charles 66 years of age next march of the Welsh Oak
Beer Tyn y cwm, saith I keep
the Welsh Oak. On Sunday night
at not quite 10 Oclock
two Men came to my House
very wet and asked to be allowed
to dry themselves which I allowed
them to do but told them to make
haste as it was time to go to bed
& I wanted to go to bed The Men
dried themselves & told me they
should be off directly
I went up to bed leaving my wife 2 daughter & son
down Stairs
remained there till about 1/2 past 10
shortly afterwards my son came up stairs and
said I never saw such a number of people
in my life when several thousand people
coming along the road
so came down stairs & then I saw a thousand or more
coming down towards me
the two Men I speak of as coming frost was a short man
about 20 years of age dressed in
a blue or dark cloth Coat a sort of drab waistcoat coat thin face
and the other man wore
a dark coat about my height
about 30 years of age fuller face They spoke
Welsh they asked for a pint of Beer
They were strangers I did not
know them or what they were

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The House was filled with Men
in a minute or two after the
Mob came he broke the tables
& chairs all to pieces. The Men
had Pikes Guns Mandrills
& other weapons There were hundreds
of them I never was so frightened
in my life. Heard them called
for Beer & took possession of the
Cellar I was unable to come down stairs till some time
after when I went into the cellar and told my son & daughter
who were there The men stopd there till before
to be daylight. I saw some of
our neighbours who said they
were brought out of their Bed
they were much terrified
John Frost was there as my
daughter told me
& he was in the parlour I was
upstairs all the time except
when I went into the Cellar
I did not know any one
except my neighbours who
had been brot there Capt Roberts,
Miller & his Brother named W[illia]m
& Thomas They ran away afterwards

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to Henlis to escape. The men began
to move about 5 or 6 o clock in the
morning. My Sons name is Henry
my daughters name is Catherine
who saw Frost and my other
daughter is named Mary
A mandrill marked with the Mon.
Iron & Coal Company at Abercarne
was left at my House & the helves or
handles of several others

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The mark X
of W[illia]m Charles

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Reg[ina] v[ersu]s Henry Frost

Deposition
of Henry Charles


Reg[in]a v[ersu]s Ebenezer
Williams
Geo[rge] Oliver
W[illia]mJones
Edm[un]d Williams
Edw[ar]d Prosser
Ja[me]s Jones Publican
William Meyrick


Beer House
Pentonville
works for Edw[ar]d Thomas

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