MR. J. ROBERTS (Flint, &c.)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is a fact that, at every tithe seizure and tithe sale which has taken place in Flintshire during the last six weeks, the "Emergency men" attending the solicitor to the Clergy Defence Association have invariably been armed with cutlasses and revolvers; whether the solicitor himself did, at a tithe sale held at Nannerch, in the said county, on Thursday, the 23rd February last, draw out a revolver, which he displayed to the people; and, whether he approves of such a bodyguard, who have not been sworn in as special constables, and who are so armed, following an irresponsible individual among excited people?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)I have no information on this subject beyond that which I gave to the House on the 23rd of February in answer to the hon. Member for Flintshire (Mr. S. Smith), and have nothing to add to what I then said.