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Showing posts with label bread or blood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bread or blood. Show all posts
Wednesday, 31 August 2016

31st August 1816: Daniel Harwood & Thomas Thody are executed at Norwich for their parts in the 'Bread or Blood' disturbances

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Two accounts of the execution of the 'Bread & Blood' rioters Daniel Harwood & Thomas Thody appear in the local press, both o...
Wednesday, 24 August 2016

24th August 1816: Joseph Bugg is executed at Ipswich for his part in the 'Bread or Blood' disturbances

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The Cambridge Chronicle of 30th August 1816 gave sparse coverage to the execution of Joseph Bugg, who had been found guilty of arson at the...
Tuesday, 16 August 2016

16th August 1816: The trial of the Feltwell & Downham Market rioters, at Norfolk Assizes

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The Norfolk Chronicle of 24th August 1816, carried an extensive report about the trials of those charged with rioting in Feltwell and Downha...
Tuesday, 9 August 2016

9th August 1816: The Judge at Bury Assizes gives death sentences to 'Bread or Blood' arsonists

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The Bury St Edmunds Summer Assizes commenced on Friday 9th August 1816, and saw a number of prisoners face trial for offences committed duri...
Saturday, 6 August 2016

6th August 1816: Arson suspected at Little Blakenham, Suffolk

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The Bury & Norwich Post of Wednesday 14th August 1816 reported a case of suspected arson at Little Blakenham, Suffolk, which took place ...
Sunday, 31 July 2016

31st July 1816: A pseudonymous writer replies to the Courier about the Ely prisoners affair

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The 31st July 1816 edition of the Bury & Norwich Post carried a letter from a pseudonymous writer 'Eliensis' (latin for 'El...
Tuesday, 26 July 2016

26th July 1816: The London Courier defends the transportation of the Ely prisoners

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An editorial in the 26th July 1816 edition of the London Courier attacked the meeting recently held in Ely which expressed disquiet about t...
Sunday, 24 July 2016

24th July 1816: Bury Quarter Sessions ends with sentences for machine-breakers and others

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 31st July 1816 carried details of the sentences for prisoners tried at the Bury Quarter Sessions for various...

24th July 1816: Bury & Norwich Post editorial about the recent meeting in Ely

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ELY, JULY 22, 1816. We are much concerned to state, that an occurrence which has recently taken place here has occasioned a very conside...
Friday, 22 July 2016

22nd July 1816: Public Meeting in Ely expresses alarm about the fate of transported prisoners

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AT a MEETING of the INHABITANTS of the TOWN of ELY, held at the Club Inn, in Ely, on Monday the 22d day of July, 1816, (t he Magistrates ha...
Sunday, 17 July 2016

17th July 1816: Four jailed for destroying a Threshing Machine at Hockham, Norfolk

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At the Norfolk County Session on Wednesday 17th July 1816, 4 prisoners were jailed for destroying a Threshing Machine at Hockham on 19th Ma...
Saturday, 16 July 2016

16th July 1816: One rioter imprisoned for Norwich riot in May 1816

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On Tuesday 16th July 1816, the Norwich Quarter Sessions commenced & the trials included cases of rioting that took place in the city in...
Friday, 1 July 2016

1st July 1816: The 9 'bread or blood' rioters are moved from Ely to Newgate prison prior to transportation

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On Monday 1st July 1816, the 9 prisoners convicted of various offences and who had been sentenced to transportation  at the Ely Special Com...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016

29th June 1816: The executed rioters are buried in Ely

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The memorial plaque, on the south wall of the tower of St Mary's Church, Ely, to the five executed Ely and Littleport rioters, execute...
Tuesday, 28 June 2016

28th June 1816: General Byng reports his plans for the military in East Anglia

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Ely June 28th 1816— My Lord, As I did not attend, and as Sir Henry Dudley has fully informed your Lordship of the particulars of the awf...

28th June 1816: The prosecution solicitor, H. R. Evans, writes a report about the Ely executions

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Dear Sir The awful Business is over! The five unhappy wretches behaved with the greatest penitence and submission—acknowledging the Justic...

28th June 1816: Sir H.B. Dudley sends Lord Sidmouth a report of the Ely executions

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Ely College Friday noon [28th June 1816] My Lord The concluding scene has passed, with a [illegible] & impressive solemnity. Many o...

28th June 1816: The 5 Ely rioters are executed in the city

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On Friday 28th June 1816, the 5 rioters sentenced to death at the Ely Special Commission were executed in the City. Two East Anglian newspa...

28th June 1816: The Treasury Solicitor writes to the Home Office about prosecutions for rioting at Brandon

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Lincolns Inn 28th June 1816 Sir In answer to your note of yesterday, transmitting a note from His Grace the Duke of Grafton, in which H...
Monday, 27 June 2016

27th June 1816: Thomas Gooch MP informs the Home Office of arson at his property

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Milford House nr. Godalming June 27th 1816. My Lord. Understanding that my Brother “ MP for Suffolk” has communicated to your Lordshi...