Questions put to arrested Blanketeers (HO 42/164 f.43)
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- Are you living with your parents or how otherwise?
- What wages were you getting?
- Had you any and what relief from the township? What township?
- Can you read and write?
- What school have you been at?
- What religion are you of?
- Have you commonly attended any and what church or chapel?
- Do you wish to give any account of what you were doing last Monday? Tell your own story?
- What did you go for?
- What did you complain of and what did you expect to get by it?
- What should you have done if the Prince refused to see you?
- Are you a member of any club or society? Where was it held? Who were the heads of it? What was it called? What did you do at it?
- How should you have come back?
- Where did you intend to sleep the first night?
- Who were the head of your ten?
- Who were captains of the division?
- Where was it settled who should be heads, where and how was it managed?
- Had you a knapsack? Where did you get it?
- Where did you get your petition?
- When did you first attend the meetings at Bibby’s rooms? How often did you go there? What did you think of what was said?
- When did you first think of going?
- Did you go of your own accord, or who set you on?
- Was there any drawing of lots who should go? When was it? Who proposed it? Who managed it? What street or place was it for? [There had been a rumour of a ballot for this purpose]
- Did you receive or pay any money?
- What do you think of the business now?
- Who will speak to your character?