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ALITEACT TROPE V/It -1111NIIVES OF THE EV/15231t1L
TAKEN' "ETHEL DAL CONIMILTEE OF THE HeNSE
' COMMOWS, FO WHOM THE DILI. RESPECTING
TAG LAWS 1E1.1E1140 TO THE wOOLLEIT TITADZ
13 HEFT:HEEL/.
Jelin NI ALE F, eollty4 in, and exarniaed by Mr. Witmer.
Where do you Tr c'—Al Amebridge, In Stroud Parish.
What are ,sti -.A weaver.
flow long here yaila been its the weaving business ?..About
twenty year..
With eespect to d.c number of persons mot of employment,
fa:l:here been asasciiitions in ynor neighb ierbood lately form-
ed ..-41tere have been easoeiarions.
:taw loop back o—.thout nee months.
'ore you a member of them !-...-Yes
taw long has. you been a member?—Three months.
.Nifhasepiilied lu you ti bee member ?—The majority of wee-
a err, I think.
Ik, th.l go chant e unseeing !—Those of the town.
N%-lin wore they cannot recollect.
Dirt they ga about the town applying to people to join them !
—Yes.
ffid etterney r wish them?—No.
Who 'a the attorney employed ?—%l: Jarmo!).
is he the praseleirt of your association'—Yes.
Han joa 11Celi Mr Jesesip at the meetings !—Once, I be-
;Oro.
He was in the rot. it lit was previd wit, I bdieve.
Did he go about toe place with pormos who were applying
la mime. to become ineinbers ?—1 never knew it.
Have yea mien .the people gnine about canvassing
AVlaat numbers ate there belaaging to this association
canna! tell
Some hundreds; some thoususji)—l suppose in the coon-
Tr of Gloucester there are kw:Amis.
A you not believe there ate some ttioveanth S—lcannot say.
Hire you attended the meetings often Ns-4 hove sometimes,
dot often.
Do not you know that your aweciation is in correepondeoce
nt/th other atauciatione in Wiltshire, someiraetshire, and York-
Chive ?—1 am not particularly acquainted, having other bus.•
tress to attend to.
Do not yr' know that these Meetings have correepondeneee
Ruing on wlth the neighbouting counties, Wittehire, Somer-
s oshire, and likewise associations of a similar nature in York-
shire Someractehire, Yorkshire, and Gloucestershire, l be-
lieve they do.
Do not you believe that they do likewise in Yorkshire
do not know that they tlo; I do nut know whethzr they have
become agreed.
Da not you know that there are asaciotions in Yorkshire ?
I do not.
Have not you at your meetings talked of those associations
In Yorkshire ?—I believe I have heard that mentioned.
To prevent illegai persons folhowing the trade ?--I never un-
derstood that they had any society formed
What the,' did your hear about them at your meetings ?
That they hest offend to join the three counties of Somerset,
Glovertar, and Wilts.
That the people in Yorkshire had offered !--Yes, I believe
they had.
You never herd any calculation of your numbers?—No.
Were you ever et a meetii.,; when Mr. Jessup was not there!
—Yes.
Has he german,' f aer. at your nieerings!—No.
%Vim taw& the chair when he was not there?—There are
sz.,,cards in each pariot.
Triey rester ht the chair?--Then minute the business and
rec,•ive the on tscrips ion rimney.
rime yea seen Mr ..1,••::op there?—.lfc:, once.
NVP ' That a qoarterie meeting, or sonic great occasion, that
cailad him there ;tall; not strike nay mind what that was.
Was there a rant deal of business done that night can.
ton call to my mind.
Who is your attorney to manage yo .1 prosecutions !—There
poet have be= any prosecutions but one.
Who was apples ed then t—Mr. Jewrop.
Di! race you know that there had been a great number of
saes:col served on persons to the number of one hundred or one
hundred aid fifty'—No, I du not; it was before I had any
th,nr, to ao will it.
Donut pi, know them were notices served ; you might
Pity: bested it talked over that such notices had Leen served
r Winn 1 have heard of such things.
iitie! *cot you hear that Mr. Joao') was employed in giving
EhJIM 11031013?—I did not; Ido not know who WAS employed.
\V ens there anybody else to be employed but Mr. Jessup
!...-r.v nothing of Mr. Jessop nut of the business.
Wit there any other attorney belonging to the society but
Mr. Jump never heard that there was.
DM you become a seemlier of this annveiatinn before or after
the eanvidtiurts at Christina I mistake not, I Delouse a
ernbc.iln Januery last.
Was it before or after the sessions, do you know '—l cannot
ten.
%Vas It before or after the eight persions were convicted yon
remember it •belag talked of in the meeting, those eight per-
sons having been prosecuted and conmasi at Wootton-under-
felt.- ?—1 recollett something of that.
To the number of eight?--I cannot spy what number, 1
know not what number.
That was tanked of after you became a member !—Yes.
Do not you know whether the convictions were before or at.
tet You became a member believe before.
Was not it talked of who was the attorney who managed
them; do you man to sty yuu do not know who was the at-
torney do not know, I know nothing of that.
Were they weavers at Wootton-under-Edge ?—I have heard
so

Those were persons who had not served apprenticeships ?
I ken* nothing of Hut, whether they were apprentices or not.
Da you meal •• silty when you were talking over this, that
It was we stated what they were prusecuted fur ?—Yes, I re-
collect that.

Weal was !---1 have heard that the clothiers put out slob-
hing, which iv taken frau, a billy in the manufactory ; the more
resider way is putting it to the spinning inachinciy, where it is
Liawn smear; I understand it wo..s taken out in the s'obbing
and mita the 'caveat, which is ate the regular way of doing
h; and beim a wen* myself, I know it cannot be tlot:e pro.
Was It not foe aoluting w itkmen from their masters do
net know.
Was ft ant at your own mlritior that these men were
proweuted for solacing men from their unseen:—.t do not re-
curtoct exactly what it was.
lied not you hear want those prumentiaos were about ; did
you lea: that they tore defended at the expellee of the
association,'-1 did not.
De 'tor mean to say you did '—l an quite unacquainted
nay more than by ripest.
am *slung Eke whet pegged at yoar meetings ?—I cannot
charge sly iotniory what It.
Do you romn to my, that sufficient wm not talked over for
you to know what they weft pedoecuted for "!-.-1 mule:slut-4
they were pnrsxotert Sr taking the work clot in an unlawful
mann% and that Some ffidd they would sapport than out of the
s eleity. •
D.: Ton meta to sty, that you heard in the society that they
* ere t, be prosecuted ?-4 never heard the arty were to be sup-
ri,arrsvf but iestlie protection of the trade.
rids may be in the protectioo of the trade'—There is no-
thing in the protettian of the trade which is an unlawful mea-
Euro
VAS ant it will.-that persons who left their masters by your
desire, wereto be sepportod out of the in :ids of the suciety
never hoard any soeh thing.
This is at Wootton never heard any thing of the kind.
What did you mean by toying just now, that some persons
mil they might sir' port than out of the society did under-
okra, that after they had taken the work out, some one says
to another von will return it, and we will support you : and for
that 1 usrdarstood they were convieled.
Souse of the members of the society ?--I have heard such
ghive, I know not the fad, I only heard it by mere report.
Y,so have told us in answer to the question what pasted at
the eiettiiig, that this thing was talkedof which passed about

dr, Wootton-under-Edge people, and :hey said they would sup-
port thou out !--4 heard they were convicted fur that.

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