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Q. On their giving you a spike, did you say anything? A. Yes; I asked them to let me have my own gun, and they denied it me, and said I should not, I must have a spike.

Q. How far did you go with them?

A. About three hundred yards, as near as I can guess. Q. Did you get away and get off?

A. George Weightman took my spike, and bade me turn again.

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Q. Before George Weightman took your spike what you said to him?

A. He gave me a nudge, you know.

Q. Had you said any thing to him about going?

A. Yes; that was in my own yard: I said it was a very hard case to offer to take me from this lonely place, and to leave my wife there alone, and he said it was; and he said, go a little way and you shall turn again.

Q. George Weightman you had known before?
A. Yes.

Cross-examined by Mr. Denman.

Q. How far did you go?

A. Three hundred yards.

Q. Then he gave you a nudge, and you went home again?

A. Yes.

Mr. Serjeant Copley. Will you excuse my putting another question:-Did you speak to William Turner, the Prisoner, in the yard of your house?

A. I spoke to William Turner in the yard, and said, "Well, William, are you one?" and he said, "Yes." Lord Chief Baron Richards. He said before that be had seen him, and that he had spoken to him,

Mr. Serjeant Copley. It was only the precise words. Mr. Denman. As to the precise words, they were, "I saw William Turner, and spoke to him."

A. Yes.

Q. And you escaped as soon as you could?
A. Yes.

Q. They said there was a great number coming from Sheffield?

A. Yes; and a great cloud from the North,

Q. Did the town of Wakefield happen to be mentioned?

A. I do not recollect the name of Wakefield.

Q. Nor the town of Huddersfield?

A. No, I do not recollect that.

Q. Sheffield, and a cloud from the North?
A. Yes.

Q. You do not recollect who said that?
A. It was the Captain who said that to me.

Mr. Elijah Hall, senior, sworn.

Examined by Mr. Reader.

Q. Where do you live?

A. At Southwingfield Park.

Q. What are you?

A. A farmer and miller.

Q. What time did you fasten up the door of your

house, on Monday, the 9th of June last?

A. About eleven o'clock.

Q. At night?

A. Yes, at night.

Q. Were

your family then gone up stairs to bed?

A. A part of them was.

Q. Before you went up did

A. I did not go up stairs.
Q. Did you hear anything?

A. I did.

you hear anything?

Q. What did you hear?
A. The footsteps of two men.
Q. Approaching your door?
A. Approaching the door.

Q. Did you say anything to them, or they to you? A. They asked me if any men had been there that night for guns?

Q. What answer did you make?

A. I told them there had : they said had they taken any away; I told them they had; they went away; I then opened the door, and went out to see if there was anybody about with an intent to take out my fire arms.

Q. Did you see anybody?

A. I saw a number of armed men coming up to my door, coming into my yard, advancing towards the door.

Q. About how long might that be after the two mẹn were gone away?

A. A very few minutes.

Q. What were they armed with?

A. Pikes and guns, and one had a sword.

Q. By pikes you mean similar sort of things to those on the table?

A. Yes.

Q. What passed then?

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A. I asked them what they were doing there at that time of the night; some of them said they wanted a bigger loaf, and the times altering: I told them it was not in my power to give them a bigger loaf, or to alter the times they said they did not suppose it was, but they wanted my fire arms. I told them I had none for them; they said they knew positively that I had, and I had better deliver them up to prevent further mischief-to prevent the house from being fired. They then advanced towards the door, close to the door, and demanded entrance; I told them it was not in my power to open the door, being outside as well as themselves.

Q. How was the door at that time?

A. It was locked, or fastened in some manner.

Q. It was fastened after you left it?

A. It was; they then began to force it.

Q. In what way?

A. With their pikes and other weapons: then the gun was given them through the window.

Q. Through one of your windows?

A. Yes.

Q. Of course, by some person within.

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A. Yes, after they had repeatedly demanded fire-arms, they then demanded me to go along with them. I told them I should not. Some of them said, "He has sons." The Captain then said, "If he has sons, we will take the young, and not the old man."

Q. The person who appeared to you to be Captain?
A. The person that they called Captain.

Q. Had they called him Captain?

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A. They had; they said, Captain, how must it be, must we force the door?"

Q. What was the answer?

A. He ordered them to blow it in pieces.

Q. The door?

A. Yes, after repeated attempts.

Q. Did you hear anything at this time at a distance? A. I heard a gun going off at a little village about half a mile off.

Q. About this time?

A. A little while before.
Q. What was done then?

A. They tried to force the door again, when the Captain was ordering his men to blow it in pieces; and having made several attempts in the mean time, it was opened from within?

Q. What passed on the door being opened?

A. On the door being opened, the Captain and several others went in.

Q. Did you go in ?

A. I did.

Q. Did others go in ?

A. To the amount I think of twelve or more.

Q. Did they say what their purpose was before they

went in ?

A. I had not heard anything of the general purpose till they got into the house.

Q. You went in yourself, and the people without, to the amount of ten or a dozen?

A. Yes.

Q. What did they do when they got in?

A. They demanded my sons.

Q. What answer did you make to that?

A. I told them, I should not fetch them. They demanded me to fetch them. I told them I should not. Q. What did they say or do upon that?

A. The captain gave me two pushes with his gun.
Q. With what part of the gun? ̧‹

A. The muzzle of the gun; he presented it at me, and told me he would blow my brains out if I did not immediately light a candle and fetch my sons to go along with them. I told them I should not: he took a candle from some one of the family and lighted it at the fire. Q. An unlighted candle?

A. Yes; he lighted it at the fire, and he and several others went up stairs.

Q. Could you hear what passed up stairs?

A. I heard them threaten my sons to hash them up, if they would not get up and go along with them, and they brought one down.

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A. There were only two big enough ;-they brought

Elijah down part dressed.

Q. Did they compel him to finish his dressing?

A. They did all but tying his shoes.

Q. Was any body doing any thing during that time?

A. They were hunting about for more fire arms.

Q. Did you ask them any questions after they got into the house?

A. Yes; I did.

Q. What did you ask them?

4. I asked the captain in particular where he was going; he said, to Nottingham; he believed Nottingham was taken at that time,

Q. Did you ask them their purpose?

A. I asked them their purpose; he said that they should proceed from Nottingham to London, wipe off the national debt, and begin afresh.

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