Jenner, George | Day 10

Received money from Mackins for erecting four flagpoles and hoisting and taking down the flags each morning and evening over the course of a week.

Dr Hulke testified to giving him 2 sovereigns to gain some information from the other watermen in Walmer as to their opinions, with a view to determining the likely outcome of the election, but he made no mention of it.

Witness Type: Bribee

Party: Conservative

Witness Testimony:

  • 12450.

    And then you you put the FLAGS up every morning, and took them down at night ? — Yes.

  • 12451.

    (Mr. Holl.) Did you rig them up ? — Yes.

  • 12452.

    (Mr. Jeune.) They did not require any rigging up, did they ? — Simply putting them into the earth, and when the election was over I took them down.

  • 12453.

    (Mr. Holl.) Had you a rope to pull the FLAGS up and down with, or what ? — Yes, of course a rope ; you could not pull the FLAGS up without.

  • 12454.

    (Mr. Turner.) And you received nothing else ? — No.

  • 12455.

    (Mr. Jeune.) 3L. 10s. do you say for how many days’ works ? — Ten days’ work.

  • 12456.

    And that is 7s. a day ? — Yes.

  • 12457.

    What do you make ; what are your ordinary earnings ; what do you get a week about ? — More some weeks than another ; it depends upon the weather a great deal ; some weeks more than others.

  • 12458.

    But what on the average would be your earnings ? — I cannot tell ; it depends upon the weather. I have the privilege of going fishing, and that kind of thing, when Mr. Kempson is in town.

  • 12459.

    I do not want to go into exactly what you earn every day, but do you think you earn 30s. a week on the average, taking one week with the other ? — No, I do not.

  • 12460.

    Then this 3L. 10s. is good pay ? — Yes, and it ought to be sometimes ; going and fetching things where I borrowed them from, and taking them back, and digging the holes, and all that.

  • 12461.

    (Mr. Holl.) Did you borrow the POLES yourself ? — I did not.

  • 12462.

    (Mr. Jeune.) So you got 7s. a day ; that is two guineas a week ? — Yes, and least enough too.

  • 12463.

    It is pretty nearly twice as much as you get in ordinary times, is it not ? This work did not keep you all day ; when the FLAGS were once up in the morning there they were, and you could go boating and fishing, and anything you liked ? — I know all about that.

  • 12464.

    Then do you not think this 3L. 10s. was a good sum ? — I think it is least enough.