about the time the gun was loaded, George Weightman said, "come lads, I expect an engagement very soon with Jessop's men at Butterley furnace;" the witness asked William Turner in the presence of the stranger, who he was; he said, "our Captain from Nottingham;" Samuel Ludlam and the witness stopped about a hundred yards short of the barn, and saw about a score of men coming out of the barn; as they came towards him he observed they had arms, spikes or pikes, and one sword or two; the Prisoner, Turner, and Weightman, all caine together from the barn; George Weightman said they must go to a field of Mr. Topham's, and the Pentridge people would meet them there; before they went to Topham's field, the Prisoner and William Turner formed them into ranks; he says he carried a bag of bullets, he had taken them from George Bramley; he preferred carrying them to carrying a pike; the Prisoner ordered them to march the nearest way to Topham's field; then a pike was placed upon the table, and he said the instrument produced upon the table was the sort of instrument which they had then, and which he calls a spike; he says they first went to Hardwicke's; the biggest part of the party went up to the house, he did not; they went next to Henry Tomlinson's; he did not see whether they took any thing from thence he afterwards went the nearest way to meet them at Topham's Close, where they were joined by Isaac Ludlam the elder, and younger, and William Ludlam; they had also such pikes as that which you saw, Gentleben, upon the table; the Pentridge men did not meet them as they expected; George Weightman was sent forwards to go to the wire mill, and if he met them to turn them to Pentridge-lane-end; to meet them there, George. Weightman took the bag of bullets then along with him, and the witness and the rest went to the house of Elijah Hall; he cannot say who commanded them there; Turner and the Prisoner commanded them all the way they went; when they got to Elijah Hall's, he was out of the door, and the door fastened upon him; he said so himself afterwards; the Prisoner asked him for his gun; Hall was not willing to give it; they disputed some time about it, and at last Elijah Hall ́desired somebody from within to give the gun, and the gun was given through the window to the Prisoner; the Prisoner told Hall he understood him to have more arms in the house, and he said that he must have them; Hall said he had no more; the Prisoner replied, if you have more and do not give them your door shall be broken open; at last the door, not be ing broken open, was opened from within; Hall went in, and the Prisoner and several more followed him; the Prisoner was going up stairs to fetch the gun, and Elijah Hall offered to stop him, the Prisoner struck him with his fist at first, and then presented his gun at him, and said, if he did not find his gun he would shoot him. The witness laid hold of the Prisoner, and told him not to use the man ill, that he did not believe he had any other arms. The Prisoner took a candle up stairs, and searched for more arms, but he did not find any. He brought Elijah Hall's son down with him, and he took him along with them; he went very unwillingly. He believes the young man was in bed when he was taken. The Prisoner first said that the father mast go, and then said he would take the son in his stead; both the Turner's were with them at that house, William and Joseph Turner. Joseph is the man who is called Manchester Turner, who has but one eye; the three Ludlams were still with them, and so were Barker, Swaine, and Bramley. Barker said he had longed for that day to come for a long time, but it had come at last. Young Hall was taken with them against his will. They then went to Isaac Walker's, from whom he saw a pistol taken; the Prisoner put it into the string of his apron, which was tucked round him like a belt. They then went to Henry Bestwick's, and the witness saw nothing there, but heard the window broken. They next went to Samuel Hunt's: when they got in there, Hunt was fetching bread and cheese out; some were in before the witness; he told them to eat what bread and cheese they liked, and he would dress and go along with them. We hear that that Hunt is a farmer, and one of the persons in this Indict After they had taken what bread and cheese and beer they thought fit, Samuel Hunt and the servant went with them; they stayed there a quarter of an hour, or twenty minutes: there was a candle in the room all the while they were there, which enabled the witness to see more particularly what weapons they had: they had pikes, Manchester Turner had a sword, and William Turner had a gun. They then went next to Mrs. Hepworth's; he says he heard the Prisoner at the bar rapping at the door, and calling for the arms out: the door was not opened, and the Prisoner called for somebody of his party to come and break the door open; upon this, Samuel Hunt took up a large stone and flung it at the door once or twice. The door however was not forced open, and the Prisoner went from that door to a little back window which looks into the kitchen; the Prisoner asked them to give the arms out, or to open the door, but they did neither; somebody within refused him, and he immediately fired in at the window; whether a gun or a pistol he does not know. The witness went to the window, and saw the man lying down in the kitchen; he was Mrs. Hepworth's servant. He says he told the Prisoner he should not have shot the poor innocent man. The Prisoner said it was his duty to do it, and he would do it; and if the witness said anything. more about it, he would blow his brains out. After this happened, he says arms were given out. They then went to Pentridge-lane-end, where they met another party; Joseph Weightman, Joseph and James Taylor, and Benjamin Taylor were there; all of them had arms; Joseph and Benjamin Taylor had spikes, and James a gun. Another party went to Buckland Hollow, and while they were gone, we heard a great disturbance; they were calling them all up at Pentridge-lane-end; they were taking the men out, and arms, where they could find them they all met together, and went to Pentridge town. Before they got there the Prisoner formed them into ranks, and asked whether there were any military men among them, or men who understood discipline-that they must turn out to keep the men in order: Upon that, Charles Swaine turned out; he had been in the militia: they were then all put into ranks by the Prisoner, William Turner, and Swaine; the men who had guns in front, and the spikes in the rear. When they were formed, one of the three said 'march,' and they marched to Pentridge; other houses were attacked at Pentridge; a poney was taken from Mr. Booth's; George Weightman had it. They then went to Butterley Iron-works, there might be sixty or more at the time. : Mr. Goodwin came out to them: he understood from the party that George Weightman was gone on the poney to Nottingham; he did not see him go, but he saw him return with the poney. Mr. Goodwin said something at Butterley, he did not hear what he said; after that the Prisoner bid them march, and they marched to Ripley town-end the Prisoner ordered them there to halt, and give three huzzas. Then they marched forward to Codnor; there they stopped at the Glass-house public-house; the prisoner knocked them up, and bid them bring some ale, and all the party had some. When they were there, Samuel Hunt and the two Turners, Manchester Turner and Edward Turner, joined them with others, they had separated a little way from the party. William Turner and the Prisoner ordered the landlord to make out the bill, which amounted to £1. 8s. The Prisoner said to the landlord, that he need not be afraid of being paid, he would see him paid. They marched on, and three persons were taken out of a barn and brought with them. They marched to Langley-mill, and while there, George Weightman returned on Mr. Booth's poney. The Prisoner and many others surrounded him, and asked him what he had heard about Nottingham. He said they were doing very well there; the soldiers would not come out of their barracks, that they were to march on; they did march on the witness says he went with them two or three miles, when some of the party had dropped off, and he also quitted them, and the rest marched on towards Nottingham. The Prisoner, William Turner, and some others were marching towards Nottingham; he says before he left the party some tried to get away. Henry T Hole wished to get away, and the Prisoner said if he would not return he would shoot him, and the Prisoner aimed his gun at him, and the witness and another man desired him not to fire, then Hole wás fetched back by Richard Bramley. He was cross-examined, and he says he met them first about nine o'clock at night-he had a pike during part of his walk, and when he escaped he threw it away, and he saw many pikes thrown away by other people-in his return he was taken, and then he went and showed a man where he saw the pikes thrown-from Booth's house to Langley-mill might be a distance of three or four milesthere was time for George Weightman to go to Notting-ham and to return from Nottingham between the time of his leaving them and his meeting them at Langleymill-he says the party had principally dispersed before any opposition to them appeared-they had marched in this way nine or ten miles. Henry Tomlinson is next called, he is a farmer at Southwingfield-on Monday night, the 9th of June, about half past nine or a quarter before ten, a man came to him from Mr. Hardwick's house-it is not a quarter of a mile-he gave him some information, in consequence of which he locked the house door and went out with his wife into the yard; they staid there about ten or fifteen minutes before he saw any body come, then a body of men came to the house, and came in at one end of the yard; there appeared to him to be between thirty and forty-some of them were armed with spikes and some with guns-the spikes were such as he saw then on the table-when they came to the door they began to rattle it he asked them what they wanted, they said, 'you and your gun,' he does not know whether the Prisoner was there he said they should have neither-he had a gun, but it was gone to Ashover to be mended--the person whom they called captain asked for him and his gan, but it was too dark to see his person-the captain said if he did not open the door they would break it, that they would' search the house-as the witness was going up to the door, |