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Reg[ina] v[ersu]s Z Williams &
David the Tinker
[in left margin:- Welshman]
The information of
John Jones Collier of the Argoed
in the parish of Bedweltye in the
Co[unt]y of Monmouth Householder
I was in my own House on
Sunday night 3rd Nov[ember]. A score
people came to my House
bet[wee]n 6&7 o'clock I was not
gone to bed they only came
to the door and said I must
come out to them I live
by the side of the Tram Road
I refused to go out saying I wo[ul]d
sooner die in the House than
go away to be killed they s[ai]d
they they wo[ul]d kill him if he did
not go then asked me to come
to the road to speak to them
my wife s[ai]d I had better so I
went there were hundreds in

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the road. They s[ai]d he was bound
he was go to Newbridge & there
he sho[ul]d hear from Mr Frost
were they were going. They
were nearly all armed some
with Guns Pikes & everything
I went with them to Newbridge by Crospenmaen & Crumlin when they sd Mr Frost was gone
forward but they must go down to
Mr Charles Welsh Oak they
did not stop any where
except to break into the
Houses to force people along
they went into almost every
House they came to they
offered me a gun Cleaver
and Pole [poker in top copy] but I wo[ul]d take
nothing but my walking
stick I went from
Newbridge by the Turnpike

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Road to Risca I went thro[ugh] Abercarne
the troop that had been before us
had been to Mr Llewellin's House
at Abercarne. He came along
the Tram Road from Risca Bridge
to H[enr]y Charles Welsh Oak. There
was a carriage at Harry Charles
at the Welsh Oak I know Z[ephaniah] Williams
very well I used to live near
him It was about 2 o'clock
when I came to the Welsh
Oak I staid there some time
walking upon the road backwards
& forwards I walked on
to the Cefn towards Newport I had
a shilling in my pocket I went
in to a House to get a warm
near Coed y Melin I was taken
near there by Special Constables
& brought here I did
not see Z Williams that night
I was disch[arge]d by the magistrates
I went back to look for my Boy

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who was pressed by the men
I went back the Turnpike Road
way towards home when near the upper gate of Sir Charles
Morgan's Park I met the
men coming down I saw
a man called David the Tinker
I do not know his surname
he thinks he is a collier
he had a sort of large
knife and a spear at
the end of a pole more than
a foot long - later they stopped
me I told them what I had
seen I had been under hands
before the magistrates and advised
them to be quiet David the
tinker said you old devil
don't [tell] lies here & don't frighten
the men & injure the cause
by telling them of it David the Tinker
forced me back with them
& I came back again as

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