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Showing posts with label bury st edmunds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bury st edmunds. Show all posts
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...
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...
Friday, 27 May 2016

27th May 1816: The Duke of Grafton sends the Home Secretary an update on the state of Suffolk

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Bury May 27. 1816 My Lord I had the honour of acquainting your Lordship by the Post of last night from this place, that I had found suc...

27th May 1816: Resolutions of a meeting of the Lord Lieutenant & Magistrates of Suffolk at Bury St Edmunds

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SUFFOLK.  AT a Meeting of the LORD LIEUTENANT and the MAGISTRATES of the said County, held at the Shire-Hall, in Bury St. Edmund's, ...
Thursday, 19 May 2016

19th May 2016: Troop movements

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In the first signs that the government was now beginning to intervene in the crisis in East Anglia, on Sunday 19th May 1816, units of the 1s...
Tuesday, 17 May 2016

17th May 1816: A 13 year-old boy confesses to arson at Lawshall, Suffolk

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 22nd May 1816 reported that in the evening of Friday 17th May 1816, a culprit had been found for the arson at...
Monday, 16 May 2016

16th May 1816: 200 Special Constables sworn in at Bury St Edmunds

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Following a well-attended meeting organised by Alderman T. Foster at the Guildhall in Bury St Edmunds, 200 person were sworn-in as Special C...
Sunday, 15 May 2016

15th May 1816: Protests in Bury St Edmunds about a Hosier's use of the Spinning Jenny

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 22nd May 1816 carried a report about a protest that took place in the town of Bury St Edmunds in the evening ...
Saturday, 14 May 2016

14th May 1816: Arson in Bury St. Edmunds

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 22nd May 1816 reported a case of arson in the large town of Bury St. Edmunds itself that occurred in the even...
Friday, 29 April 2016

29th April 1816: Bury St Edmunds Justices express concerns to the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk

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[29th April 1816] To the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk We, the Justices assembled at the adjourned quarter Sessions at Bury S...

29th April 1816: Bury St Edmunds Magistrates issue warning against assemblies

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SUFFOLK. BURY QUARTER SESSIONS. APRIL 29, 1816. WHEREAS disorderly Assemblages of Persons have taken place, and Outrages have been...
Sunday, 21 February 2016

21st February 1816: More remarks about the severity of the Winter

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The Bury & Norwich Post of Wednesday 21st February 1816 carried a report about the weather in the 'year without summer': A Cor...