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Q. Had he a gun?

A. Yes.

Q. A man called Manchester Turner, was he among

them?

A. Yes; I just saw him.

Q. Can you say what arms he had?

A. No, I cannot.

Q. Do you know Edward Turner?

A. Yes.

Q. What had he?

A. A long gun.

Q. Do you know two Joseph Weightmans?
A. Yes.

Q. Were they both with you?

A. Yes.

Q. Do you know Samuel Ludlam?
A. Yes.

Q. Was he one of the party?

A. Yes he was.

Q. Samuel Hunt?

A. Yes.

Q. What had he?

A. He had a spike first.

Q. Had he any thing else afterwards?

A. Yes, a gun afterwards.

Q. Do you know German Buxton?
A. Yes.

Q. Was he one of the party?

A. Yes.

Q. What had he?

A. He had a gun.

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Q. William Barker and Alexander Johnson, were they

both with you?

A. They were.

Q. What had they?

A. They had both spikes.

Q. Joseph Savage, what had he?

A. He had a gun and a pistol and all.

Q. Joseph Topham?

A. Yes.

Q. Benjamin Taylor?
A. Yes.

Q. Joseph Taylor ?
A. Yes.

Q. Had they arms?

A. Yes, they had spikes.

Q. Samuel Walters?

A. Yes.

Q. Do they call him Samuel Dudley too?
A. Yes.

Q. What had he?

A. A spike.

Q. You remember those persons particularly?
A. Yes.

Q. Do those men live some at Wingfield and Pentridge?

A. Yes.

Q. Any of those at Swanwick?

A. Yes.

Q. Some of them Pentridge men, some Wingfield, and some Swanwick.

A. Yes, and some Butterley.

Q. Those men you had known before, had you?

A. Yes.

Henry Hole, sworn.

Examined by Mr. Serjeant Vaughan.

Q. I believe you live at Pentridge-lane-end?

A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember on Sunday the 8th of June seeing anybody in particular?

A. On Sunday night, turned of nine o'clock, I saw Samuel Hunt, and about seven or eight others, standing before the smithy door of George Turner.

Q. What did Hunt say to you?

A. I had a jug of milk in my hand, and Samuel Hunt said " you are fetching that to be ready for those men tonight;" I said, "what men;" he said, "those revolutionists which will come to-night or to-morrow night."

Mr. Cross. The prisoner was not there.

Mr. Serjeant Vaughan. No, but it was Sunday nightit was long after we have fixed the prisoner, Brandreth, as being present at a meeting in the morning.

Q. Did you see any of them on the next night?

A. Yes.

Q. Did Hunt say any thing to you ?

A. Hunt and me soon parted-I saw nothing of him any more.

Q. On the next night, and at what time did you see and hear anything of any of them?

A. On the 9th about twenty minutes before twelve o'clock, me and my wife were awoke by some violent blows that came on the door.

Q. Did you get up?

A. I got up and put my head out through a window and cried "halloo, who is there?"

Q. What did you observe, and what was said to you? A. I said, "what do you want," they cried, "we want you to volunteer yourself to go with us.

Q. What further did they say?

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Q. Did they offer you anything?

A. I came down and opened the door, and I saw four men standing.

Q. Did you know either of those men ?

A. I knew two of them, Joseph Weightman and Joseph Topham.

Q. Did you ask them where you were to go to?

A. I asked them where they were going, they said they were going to Nottingham.

Q. Upon their telling you they were going to Nottingham, what did you say to them?

A. I told them I could not pretend to go, I had no money to carry me there nor anybody to take care of my : family while I was gone; they said I needed no money they should keep me on roast beef and ale, and there.

were people fixed to take care of every body's family who would come in two days or under.

Q. What further did you say to them or they to you? A. They said I had better go with them that night than stop till morning.

Q. Did they say why?

4. They said they would come from Sheffield like a cloud and drive all before them, and them that refused to go would be shot.

Q. That they would come from Sheffield like a cloud?
A. That they would come out of Yorkshire like a cloud.
Q. And them that refused to go would be shot?
A. Yes.

Q. Upon their saying this, what did you do?

4. I dressed myself and went out-a pike was forced upon me.

Q. Upon going from your house did you observe more than those four that you first spoke of?

A. I said I was not able to carry that pike if they were going as far as Nottingham, that they must either take it or I must hurl it down-and one of them took it. Q. Where did you go?

A. We went from my house down to the turnpike-road, and about twenty or thirty yards on the turnpike-road I observed about twenty or thirty men armed with pikes, and guns, and weapons.

Q. Without going into very minute particulars, to what house did you march first?

A. We marched against John Sellars's.

Q. From thence where did you go to ?

A. We went from there along the turnpike-road along by Mr. Samuel Fletcher's.

Q. We have had that from Fletcher and his man; from thence where did you go?

A. We went a little further on the turnpike-road, and there we were divided.

Q. Before you were divided, did you see anything of the prisoner?

A. Yes, I saw him in Mr. Fletcher's yard.

Q. Did any party join you there or come up to you before you left that part.

4. Yes, a party that I understood had been at Mrs. Hepworth's.

Q. Amongst that party, did you observe the prisoner at

the bar?

A. Yes, I observed that man, he passed for the captain, I did not know his name; but I am positive that is the man. Q. You are positive that is the man?

A. Yes, I saw him sometime ago and am sure he is the

man.

Q. Whom did you observe in that party that joined you before you got into the yard of Mr. Fletcher?

A. I observed William Turner, Manchester Turner, Issac Ludlam the elder, William Ludlam.

Q. You have before spoken of Hunt and of Topham ? A. No, not that night.

Q. Did you see any other persons there?

A. I saw Samuel Hunt, just as we were going out of the yard.

Q. Had you any conversation with Samuel Hunt--did anything pass between you?

A. No, we passed along the turnpike road, and there we divided; the Captain and the biggest part went to a row of houses.

Q. Where did the others go to?

A. The other eight or ten men, I along with them, went with Samuel Hunt to Samuel Booth's.

Q. You have spoken of Manchester Turner, do you remember what he had with him?

A. He carried apparently a sort of two headed spear, with a handle like an old fashioned sword.

Q. What had William Turner ?

A. A gun.

Q. And the rest you have told us had guns or pikes.
A. Yes.

Q. You say they went to Fletcher's?

A. No, to Samuel Booth's, and there they knocked at the door.

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