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Showing posts with label humphrey yarwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humphrey yarwood. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

16th October 1812: John Lloyd informs General Acland of a report from the Luddite turned spy, Yarwood

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Genl. The Information which Yarwood gave to me and, which I have now the honor to communicate was that Wm. Parry of the Higher Hillgate i...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012

9th October 1812: The Stockport Solicitor, John Lloyd, informs the Home Office that Humphrey Yarwood is now employed as a spy

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Private Sir We are applying Yarwood at manchester in consequence of the overtures made by some of the 38 discharged from  Lancaster —...
Sunday, 2 September 2012

2nd September 1812: John Becket of the Home Office writes to the Stockport solicitor John Lloyd

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Copy Private Whitehall 2. Septr. 1812. Dear Sir I have received your several letters (3 in No) dated the 31st Ulto by this mornings ...
Friday, 31 August 2012

31st August 1812: The Stockport solicitor writes to the Home Office about his spies and informers & suspects John Bent

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Wakefield 31st August 1812 Sir I have to beg your pardon if not sooner answering yours of the 26th – The people continue to flock to ...
Sunday, 24 June 2012

24th June 1812: John Lloyd informs the Home Office about the alleged instigator of the Manchester Exchange Hall riot

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Copy, Stockport 24 June 1812 Sir By last mail I sent you the Copy of a statement we have induced Yarwood to give in his own hand writ...
Friday, 22 June 2012

22nd June 1812: General Maitland writes to the Home Secretary with his view about Humphrey Yarwood

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Buxton 22nd June 1812 My Lord The more I consider and the more I see, of all these untoward Events, the more I am convinced, there is n...

22nd June 1812: The weaver, Humphrey Yarwood, writes a statement for John Lloyd

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As the Stockport Solicitor John Lloy d had informed the Home Office on Sunday 21st June 1812 , the weaver and former Secretary of the Manche...
Thursday, 21 June 2012

21st June 1812: The Stockport solicitor John Lloyd updates the Home Office on the examination of Humphrey Yarwood

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Stockport 21st June 1812 Sir By the advice of Genl. Maitland who came over hither to see me, I & Mr. Watson the Justice talked over ...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012

19th June 1812: The prisoner, Humphrey Yarwood, confesses to the Stockport Solicitor, John Lloyd

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On Friday 19th June 1812, two days after his arrest, the Secretary of the Manchester Secret Committee, Humphrey Yarwood , was making confess...
Sunday, 17 June 2012

17th June 1812: Stockport Solicitor John Lloyd reports the arrest of 'the Secretary' Humphrey Yarwood to the Home Office

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Stockport 17th June 1812 Sir As you have not had any account from me subsequently to the Chester Commission – (owing to there being li...
Monday, 14 May 2012

14th May 1812: Government legal opinion on prosecuting Humphrey Yarwood & John Buckley Booth

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Sir, We had the honor to receive Mr. Beckett’s Letter dated May 9th, 1812 transmitting the inclosed Depositions which he states had been s...
Friday, 4 May 2012

4th May 1812: Two weavers from Failsworth meet the Manchester Secret Committee at the Prince Regent's Arms

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Joseph Taylor, a weaver from Failsworth recently moved to Club Row, Newton Lane in Manchester, was a curious type. On the day of the first M...
Friday, 20 April 2012

20th April 1812: Delegate meeting of Manchester Executive Committee at Ardwick Green

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The next General delegate meeting of the towns around Manchester took place on Monday 20th April. The disarray that was displayed in the con...
Saturday, 7 April 2012

7th April 1812: Manchester Secret Committee members borrow money from the spy 'B'

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On the evening of 6th April, the Manchester Executive Committee had cancelled the plans of the General Delegate Committee to launch attacks ...
Friday, 6 April 2012

6th April 1812: Manchester Executive Committee cancel plans for factory attacks on 9th April

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On Monday 6th April 1812, the 'Manchester Executive Committee' met at the Prince Regent's Arms on Ancoats Lane in Manchester to ...
Thursday, 5 April 2012

5th April 1812: Delegates from many North West towns meet at the Kings Arms in Salford

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The Kings Arms, Salford in the 1970s. Image copyright Salford Pubs of the 70s on Flickr. At 6 p.m. on Sunday 5th April, an important mee...
Thursday, 29 March 2012

29th March 1812: A Secret Committee is formed in Manchester

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In Manchester on the morning of Easter Sunday 1812, 4 men awaited the arrival of a coach from Stockport: they were Humphrey Yarwood, the Sec...
Sunday, 18 March 2012

18th March 1812: The Manchester spy 'B' visits villages in Cheshire

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Colonel Fletcher's spy 'B' had been out of Manchester for once and filed a report about his activities on Wednesday 18th March i...
Thursday, 23 February 2012

23rd February 1812: The Manchester spy 'B' reports on Nottingham & Birmingham contacts and a secret oath

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On Sunday 23rd February, Colonel Fletcher 's spy in Manchester, 'B' , finished another report for his master. On the 17th, he ...