voured to throw imputations upon some of the evidence delivered by some of the witnesses. And, Gentlemen, there is no doubt, that though there is no evidence to contradict the testimony on the part of the crown, you are bound to examine the testimony, and to see whether it demands that degree of credit in your minds on which you ought to act. Anthony Martin says he was in the service of Messrs. Jessop and Company at Butterley-we know that they were Iron-founders-this was a mile from Pentridge-he says that on Sunday the 8th of June he went to Pentridge with John Cope, who was in the same service with him-they went between nine and ten o'clock in the morning. This man, it appears, was asked by Cope to go along with him-that he wanted to see about his potatoes, and that he then told him he had some business there— that they went into Weightman's croft, and after some little time, a little girl came out, and asked Cope his companion to go into the house-she did not ask him he says, but he went into the house along with Cope. The witness proceeds to say, that "they asked us to walk into the parlour-we found in the parlour a good many persons, and amongst them one called the Captain-his name I afterwards found to be Brandreth"-he looks at the Prisoner at the bar, and he says that the Prisoner at the bar was the man whom he found there, who was called captain-he says many men came in after I came in-the dress and appearance of the Prisoner were different at that time from what they are now-he had on a pair of grey trowsers and a brownish great coat-he was shaved, and as the witness described it," he looked decent"-he says "there were others there"-George Weightman, of whom you have heard a good deal, Ormond Booth,two persons of the name of Joseph Weightman and Thomas Weightman., "When first I went in I found those persons there together, with the Prisoner-afterwards William Turner came in :— when Cope and I first came into the parlour the conver-, sation was about the revolution." You may perhaps ask yourselves, Gentlemen, what they meant by the revolution of which they spoke-did they speak, as has been sug gested, of the glorious Revolution in 1688?—that would be perfectly innocent, and it might be laudable; but we must consider whether that was the revolution they spoke of, or whether they alluded to any other, and if so, to what he says" the Prisoner was the principal spokesman-he had a map in his hand-he pointed out the places upon the map where the people were to meet, and he said there would be no good done except there was a complete overturn of the government"-that, Gentlemen, is hardly consistent with any allusion to the Revolution under King William the third in 1688.-He had a map in his hand, pointing out the different places at which the people were to meet, and he said no good could be done except there should be a compleat overturn of the government-he said there were crosses or marks upon the map to find out the places the more easily--other men came in, as he said before, and as they came in they asked the captain different questions about the present business, namely the revolution. "I know Shirley Asbury; he came in a little after me-the Prisoner sat near a table in the centre of the room, and many questions were asked about the present overturn and the state of the country, and what proceedings they were to go about in this business-the talk was all about this business-they all answered one among another; they were to take proceedings, as they declared, to overturn the government, or else there would be no good; that they were to assemble the next day, that is Monday, as soon as it was dusk-the Pentridge people were to meet at Pentridge, the Wingfield people were to meet at a stone quarry. The village of Wingfield is about a mile from Pentridge. Then he said, that Brandreth said that they would go to Nottingham Forest-that they were to assemble together, and to meet there in a large party and to take the town of Nottingham-that they were to meet in the Forest about two in the morning of Tuesday-the other people, that is to say, all the country round, were to rise at the same time, at ten o'clock. Then the Prisoner said, that what they meant by the other people, and all the country, was Sheffield, Manchester, and many other places." The witness does not recollect what those places were, except Sheffield and Manchester, and other places where the rising was to be at ten o'clock, and that the Prisoner was the person who named those places at which the risings were to be at ten o'clock the next night. William Turner, he said, came in after him. You will have the goodness, Gentlemen, to attend to this." William Turner asked about the guns and pikes-where they were; and he asked for their estimate of the guns and pikes. The people there said they had none; then he said his parish, Wingfield (he was a Wingfield man), was more forward than theirs; he said he had got an estimate made of every gun, pistol, and sword, that the parish had." You remember, Gentlemen (and I shall state to you by and by), attacks were made on the houses in the parish of Wingfield, and a declaration on the part of those, who made the attack, of the number of arms that they had got; of every gun, pistol, and sword, that the parish had. William Turner wanted to know the reason why they had not done the same: no reason appears to have been given for that according to the evidence. Then Turner said they had forty pikes in a stone quarry to spare; they then talked about seizing arms, and going about to demand arms; and it was declared, that if the persons, of whom they demanded arms, did not deliver them, they were to take them without their consent: this was said by Ludlam to William Turner and by Barker, he says he was there from ten in the morning till three or four in the afternoon; he left some people there at that time; he says, "Many persons, during the time I was there, came in whom I did not know; but this was the subject of the conversation during the whole time that I stayed there, I had not known the Prisoner before-I never saw him, but they called him Captain." Then he says "the Prisoner was the person principally applied to, by the questions that were. asked. He does not recollect George Weightman saying any thing; there were in the room, in the course of the day, forty persons; about twenty at one time. Robert Moore was there; he was a Ripley man, Mac Kesswick was there; witness says he had not seen him before. Ripley is a mile and a half from Pentridge. John Bacon was there; he was a Pentridge man; he says he does not recollect all that the Prisoner said, but he recited some verses "Every man his skill must try, and there, if you recollect, the witness stopped; he en deavoured to recollect more, but could not. He says "that two persons of the name of Joseph Weightman were there; the elder of them was to go to Nottingham to see what was doing there, and there was money collected in the room in order to defray his expenses. The object of sending him there was to see whether the people there would be ready to meet the party then assembled and their companions at a proper time, and Weightman was to return and let the party know. Nottingham is fourteen miles off he says the Prisoner wrote a letter and deli vered it to Weightman to send it by him to some person at Nottingham. When Mac Kesswick came in he looked round the room, and said he thought there were too many for that business; but nothing was done in consequence of that observation. He asked the Prisoner how he did; the Prisoner did not recollect him, and Mac Kesswick said, I came with you a little way along the road, and he then recollected him. That William Turner talked of drawing the badger; that, by lighting a little straw in the yard, he would come out, and that then they would shoot him: this was in Wingfield parish. William Turner said, we have some little vermin to kill in our parish also, and we must kill it before we set out. The Prisoner was in the room the whole time, except a minute or two, and heard all that passed; he spoke to most of the persons that came in George Weightman and others called him Captain.” Mr. Denmun. I beg your Lordship's pardon, Turner himself was a Wingfield man, he was not speaking of any other parish Wingfield was Turner's parish. Lord Chief Baron Richards. William Turner said, we have some little vermin to kill in our parish also and we must kill it before we set out," meaning Wingfield parish. Then this person says, upon his cross-examination, that he stayed there hearing their discourse they spoke openly, and they set all people at defiance, and said they did not care who heard them; this man adds, that he knew nothing of the meeting until he got to it, he told them after he had been there some little time to mind, because there were constables in the room, and they threatened to put him up the chimney; the man says he was himself a constable, and he said nobody called him a spy, and nobody made any objection to his being and staying there he did not know whether at first they knew he was a constable, but the woman of the house knew he was: he admonished them about what they said, he had been in the room about a quarter of an hour before he gave them the caution of his being a constable, there was another constable in the room-there were sometimes more people and sometimes less in the room; sometimes not more than half a dozen. Perhaps, when they talked of going to Nottingham, there were several persons in the room whom the witness named, and the Prisoner was amongst the rest-the Prisoner delivered out some papers himself, Cope and Asbury had each of them one; he says he had not one when he told them of the constables being in the room-they were talking of the present revolution and to the like effect. George Weightman said, he would soon cram such fellows as the witness into the chimney, but notwithstanding that they suffered him to remain all the time; he said all of them threatened him very hard, they talked of shooting any man who would say anything about them-he was not frightened enough to go away, but he was alarmed, and he did not wish to go before, the man with whom he went he believed had something to do with it. Then he says, though he was a constable he did not go to a Magistrate, but it was known that he was there, and therefore he was called upon to give evidence; he says he did not know exactly what they were going to do, but they talked of |