Tudalen 1:
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Reg[ina] v[ersu]s Frost

of the P[ari]sh of St Woollos in the Boro[ugh] of Newport Laborer
abiding with James Mellor am known by the name of Farmer
James Coles of Pillgwenlly I amEmployed in
the Smiths shops of W. T. H. Phelps
at the Waterloo yard says on Monday
morning last between 8 an 9 Oclock
were on
I was at Pillgwenlly & heard the Chartists were coming I heard
great hallooing I went up the Tram Road by the Courtybella

Machine there saw John Rees of Pillgwenlly
very fast towards
we went together on to see the Chartists

I went with Rees to meet them We
walked on the Tramroad to the Waterloo
Turnpike Gate on the Cardiff Road</add> We met a large body
of Men armed with Guns Pikes Mandrils. Swords Sticks & other weapons There were two Men who acted as Leaders
one on one side & the other on the other
who were at he Head of them one of
them was a person I afterwards heard to be John
Frost and the other known as Jack
the fifer The men stopd when they
came to us and John Frost John Frost
and who was dressed in a rough
Coat and Black Hat with a red
cravat or or comforter round his
neck & they were standing still when they came up to us but afterwards
walked on and stopped again when they came to us Frost asked me where the Soldiers were
I said about a dozen were at the
Westgate and the rest at the Poor
House as I was told for I had not been there myself Jack the Fifer said He
a pistol in one hand & something in the other he said
we intend to have the Westgate

Tudalen 2:
Jack the fifer had a gun and a pike
I heard one of the men say hand out a waistcoat for he
was wet a great many of the men were
armed with Guns Pistols pikes
Sticks & Swords and one of them had
a long pike with a hook which
he said was to hook the Horses
by the legs. I heard Frost and
Jack the fifer then say come on
or March I will not be certain which
but he said either come on or march
and the men marched on like
Soldiers till they came to the Road
leading to Stow Hill by the Friars
they then divided, some went up the
Hill and the others went the straight
road to Newport thro' Commercial St[reet].
I was going by Commercial Street into town when one of them
stopped me & said I went up over & then
followed the to Newport went
when I came I came to Charles Street which leads out of
Stow Hill I wanted to there me &
I saw the men moving away I came up the
Hill went down Charles Street into
of Men. I sometime after heard
and these I saw
going in the Town and shortly after
saw Mr Frost running
away towards the road leading to the Waterloo gate as fast as
he could I am sure it was the same person

[James Coles and other words written over the text vertically towards the left margin]