23 JANUARY 1959, Page 11

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JANUARY 25, 1834 By the vigilance of the Mayor and Magistrates of Exeter, nearly forty men, said to be members of illegal Combination Societies, were apprehended by the Exeter Police, at the Sun Inn, in that city, on Wednesday week. Amongst the party taken into custody were two delegates from London; and the whole of their materiel was seized, consisting of two wooden axes, two large cutlasses, two masks, and two white garments or robes, a large figure of Death, with the dart and hour-glass, a Bible and Testament, and the book in which the proceedings of the meeting and the oath administered to the initiated are entered, with a variety of other documents and correspon- dence.