11th February 1812: Advertisement for meeting of framework knitters, by Gravener Henson, Nottingham

TO THE

FRAMEWORK KNITTERS

OF

NOTTINGHAM, THE COUNTY THEREOF,

AND THE

TOWNS AND VILLAGES ADJACENT

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The troubled State to which the above Places are reduced, by the pressure of the Times and the operations of the Frame-Breakers, having at length excited the Attention of the Legislature; and as many Members thereof have expressed a desire to obtain every possible Information as to the probable Cause of these Disturbances, it has been thought prudent by many of the Workmen, that they, and their Fellow-Workmen at large, should contribute all their power toward furnishing such Information.

Accordingly a few of them held a Select Meeting on Tuesday last, to take the Measure into Consideration; when it was Resolved, that the Workmen in every Town and Village in the Neighbourhood should be solicited to send Two creditable Persons to a Meeting, to be held at the Sign of the Sir Isaac Newton, in Glasshouse-lane, in this Town, on Monday next, at Twelve o’Clock precisely, for the purpose of communicating the best Intelligence in their Power to such Meeting, that such Intelligence may be communicated to Lord Holland, Recorder of the Town, to the Members of the Town, the Members of the County, and Mr. Whitbread.

G. HENSON

Secretary to the Meeting

Nottingham, Feb. 11, 1812

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This advertisement appeared in the Nottingham newspapers and heralded the public commencement of Gravenor Henson's campaign to secure Parliamentary regulation of the hosiery and lace trades.