[Before] 15th March 1812: Threatening letter sent to Francis Vickerman of Taylor Hill near Huddersfield

We give you Notice when the

Shers is all Broken the

Spinners shall be the next

if they be not taken down

vick man tayler hill

he as had is garde But

we will pull all down

som Night and kill him

that Nave and Roage

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Francis Vickerman was a large scale woollen manufacturer, and part of the Committee set up to check the Luddite disturbances in Huddersfield on 23rd February 1812. The Luddites were marking him as a target, as the threatening letter suggests. The letter can be found at HO 42/121.