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Showing posts with label executions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label executions. Show all posts
Monday, 17 April 2017

17th April 1817: The Mayor of Leicester reports the Luddite executions to the Home Office

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Leicester 2 oClo Thursday April 17 1817 Dear Sir I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that the Execution of the six Luddites here ha...

17th April 1817: The Loughborough Job Luddites' hymn - 'How sad our state by nature is!'

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How sad our state by nature is! Our sin, how deep it stains! And SATAN binds our captive minds Fast in his slavish chains. Bu...

17th April 1817: The final Luddite executions at Leicester - John Amos, John Crowther, Joshua Mitchell, Thomas Savage, William Towle & William Withers are hanged

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On Thursday 17th April 1817, the final executions of Luddites took place at Leicester. There was coverage in various local newspapers bu...
Sunday, 2 April 2017

2nd April 1817: The execution of Daniel Diggle, at Nottingham

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The header from a broadsheet published to mark the occasion of Daniel Diggle's execution on 2nd April 1817 The full broadsheet can be ...
Sunday, 20 November 2016

20th November 1816: James Towle's hymn - 'Oh! For an overcoming faith'

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According to various reports, the Nottinghamshire Luddite James Towle sang the whole of this hymn prior to his execution on Wednesday 20th...

20th November 1816: The execution of the Nottinghamshire Luddite, James Towle

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On Wednesday 20th November 1816, the Luddite James Towle was executed in Leicester, before a crowd of between 10-20,000 people. The executio...
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, 28 June 2016

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...
Saturday, 25 June 2016

25th June 1816: The Chief Bailiff of Ely complains about the overcrowded Gaol

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Ely June 25th 1816 Sir You will excuse my troubling you with this Letter, merely to say, how necessary it is, that an application should...
Sunday, 3 April 2016

3rd April 1816: The execution of the Luddite, John Dann

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On Wednesday 3rd April 1816 the Luddite, John Dann (aka John Simpson), was executed in Nottingham. Dann had been convicted of Highway Rob...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

2nd October 1813: The execution of James Renshaw, Simeon Beston & William Beston

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The execution of the 3 men convicted of burglary at the Chester Lammas Assizes, including the convicted Luddite, James Renshaw , took place ...
Sunday, 31 March 2013

31st March 1813: William Simpson is hanged at Nottingham

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On Wednesday 31st March 1813, William Simpon was hanged in Nottingham. Aged about 40, he was a framework-knitter from Bulwell, found guilty ...
Monday, 21 January 2013

21st January 1813: The Gaoler of York Castle writes to the Home Offfice about the late executions

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York Castle _ 21 Jany [1813] Mr Beckett Sir I beg to Acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter this morning, from which I am sorry to fin...
Wednesday, 16 January 2013

16th January 1813: Hymn - 'Behold the Saviour of Mankind'

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Behold the Savior of mankind Nailed to the shameful tree! How vast the love that Him inclined To bleed and die for thee! Though f...

16th January 1813: The 14 convicted Luddites are executed at York Castle

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A contemporary illustration, from York Castle Prison, of an execution at the 'New Drop' after 1802. On Saturday 16th January 181...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

8th January 1813: The execution of George Mellor, William Thorpe & Thomas Smith

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At 9.00 a.m. on Friday 8th January 1813,  the three Luddites convicted of the murder of William Horsfall - George Mellor, William Thorpe ...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012

26th December 1812: General Acland gives suggestions for the fate of Mellor, Thorpe & Smith to the Home Office

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Huddersfield 26 December 1812. My dear Sir. If thought advisable to execute the murderers on the Spot where the offence was committed, ...