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Showing posts with label cumbria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cumbria. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 January 2017

21st January 1817: Jeffrey Lockett writes to the Home Office about the arrested Luddites

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Holker Hall Jany 21st, 1817 Sir I find from letters, which I have received here, that, contrary to the arrangement which Mr Mundy & ...
Sunday, 11 November 2012

11th November 1812: Whitehaven magistrates report huge foods riots in the Town

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Whitehaven 11 of Novr 1812 My Lord, We are extremely sorry to have occasion so soon to trouble your Lordship respecting the Mutinous di...
Thursday, 8 November 2012

8th November 1812: Whitehaven Magistrates ask for troops, fearing unrest in the Town

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Whitehaven. Novr 8th 1812. My Lord, Mr. Pouley a respectable Corn dealer in this Town to whom the enclosed Letter was sent, hath consul...
Saturday, 3 November 2012

3rd November 1812: A farmer from Whitehaven receives a threatening letter

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Whitehaven    [Society]    Death Sir Pouley you have Gone on this Long time with your Rogish tricks But your time is up at Last So  mind ...
Monday, 23 April 2012

23rd April 1812: Mass expropriation of goods at Sandsfield, near Carlisle

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At 10.00 p.m. at night on Thursday 23rd April, up to 700 people assembled on a common a mile from Carlisle, They were armed with various typ...
Saturday, 21 April 2012

21st April 1812: The Sheriff of Carlisle brings more troops to the city

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Carlisle April 21st 1812 Sir Having been call’d here this morng in consequence of riots which have been existing here for the last twelv...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

17th April 1812: Further disturbances at Carlisle

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The Times of 23rd April 1812 reported that the disturbances there, which had commenced 11 days earlier, were still continuing with the follo...
Saturday, 7 April 2012

7th April 1812: The military commander at Carlisle reports to his superior officer about the riots

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Copy Carlisle 7th April 1812 Sir I conceive it my duty to report to you that in consequence of having received an Order from the princ...
Friday, 6 April 2012

6th April 1812: Food riot at Carlisle

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The Caledonian Mercury of Monday 13th of April 1812 carried an article the Carlisle Journal had published 2 days earlier about the disturban...