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Newport Chartists Vol.13, p.6

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Title Newport Chartists Vol.13, p.6
Description 6
been with them - there he did say that he heard

three say in the Rasso Lodge - as they was enough

forMrSummers Harford - MrRosser at Ebbw Vale

and the Police Man at Nant y Glo - he said he would

have some blood on if to show as he had run it

into somebody - we went from there to another Public

House - We got home on Wednesday morning - one

of the drawings I saw was like one of the pikes

now produced - The Prisoner told me that he made

the pikes at his own house - [By the Prisoner] I

was not aware that you were a Blacksmith before

that night before you told me -
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John Thomas.

David Jones states : I live at Beaufort

in the parish of Llangattock Crickhowell in the

County of Brecon - I am a Shoemaker - I know

the prisoner he is a Blacksmith - I know John Thomas

of Beaufort the last witness - I remember Sunday the

3rd Novr - I saw John Thomas that day - I was
with him that afternoon we went together to Llangunnider

we went there to start from the Chartists for fear

they would take us along with them - I did hear the

Chartists was to rise that Sunday the 3 Novr- I

know a house called the Lion - I went to Chapel

that evening with Thomas - After went to Chapel

we went to the Lion - we saw the prisoner there

he was sitting down in the Kitchen - he had a table

before him - I saw before him on the Table a

Drawing of three different spikes make with chalk

I did ask the prisoner who did make them -

he said that he did make 53 of them - I asked

him what they were for, he said for Chartists Pikes

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Item URL https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1704236
Community archive People's Collection Wales
Subject

'Civil and Political Rights'

legal process

Law

y gyfraith

Weapons

beerhouses

Pubs

Chapels

Level Item
Author Unlocking the Chartist Trials/ Datgloi Achosion y Siartwyr

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