Newport Chartists Vol.6, p.42

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Reg vs John Bowen and Lewis Thomas

Thomas Beckingham of Newport

Clerk to Chas Smith Porter Merch[an]t

a Spec[ia]l Constable I was on duty

on Monday Mor[nin]g between 5 & 6

about 1 1/2 mile outside the Town

with several other Constables We

saw at Coed Melin bet[wee]n the Handpost

and the High Cross a large body of

men advancing ^ about 120 We consulted

what we had best do. Isaac Ven[n]

a person named Frances & some

others were of our party when

the men came up to where we

were - we divided & let them pass

between us & when 8 had passed

we fell in with them as of their

party - we had the 8 Men before

us & divided them from the
2 of the Men carried Pikes & one a Blacksmiths [?]...*
Main body ^We kept with

[* ? shoull or showle]

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them till we came on the top

of the Hill when the body of

men behind us staid back

We marched the before named

8 Men of which the Prisoners

were 2 of them to the Barrack

or Poor House on Stow Hill when

they were taken into Custody

I heard nothing said upon the road
______________
Tho[ma]s Beckingham



Isaac Venn of Newport

a Spec[ia]l Constable accompanied

the last witness on Monday

Morn-g 4 Novr about 5 & 6 O'clock.

Saw a Body of men coming along the

road at Coed y Melin Frances an- r
Constable were with Witness

and the last Witness When

about 5 of the Men came up

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to where witness was he joined

them and saw an old man

walking arm and arm

with Lewis Thomas

The old man appeared tired I

asked him where he was from

he said from Dowlais I said

you are tired he said yes. I offered

him my Arm which he took

& we walked on together to the

Stow Hill Turnpike Gate
__The Prisoner John Bowen is the man
^ I asked him at the road where
he was going He said he did
____ but that he had two Sons with him

not know When we came

to Stow Gate He wanted to

go down to the Tram road at

the Waterloo I told him

I would take him out of harms

way That he must go with

me before the Magistrates I beckoned

to the other Spec[ia]l Constables who

went to the opposite side & took

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the young Man Lewis Thomas

into Custody who upon

being searched had a Card X

found upon him a blue

Card but I do not know

its contents further than

being some thing connected

with the Political Union
____Isaac Ven[n]

X This Card cannot be found
_____ W.T.H. Phelps



[written across the main text/
but partly obscured on digital copy ]
Reg vs [?] Bowen & Thomas

Committed
[a large X is placed across these lines]

[in red ink]
Thos Beckingham
Isaac Ven
Newport

[with pencil annotations]

Brown [?]

[and/ in ink ]
x
[in left margin]
339 _____ (2 + 3)