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Showing posts with label john baines senior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john baines senior. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 December 2014

21st December 1814: The death of the prisoner John Baines the elder

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'Hulks in Portsmouth Harbour' by Thomas Christopher Hofland , c.1830. The Halifax prisoners were held in ships similar to these at...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

8th January 1813: The trial of John Baines and others for administering an illegal oath

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The last trial that took place on Friday 8th January was that of John Baines the elder (aged 66, a milliner), Charles Milnes (22, a cardmake...
Saturday, 15 September 2012

15th September 1812: The Huddersfield solicitor, John Allison, informs the Home Secretary of arrests in the West Riding

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My Lord By the directions of Mr. Ratcliffe our Magistrate and to save him the trouble of writing, as his hand trembles so much, I have the...
Friday, 14 September 2012

14th September 1812: The Stockport solicitor, John Lloyd, reports a breakthrough in arrests in the West Riding

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Huddersfield 14 Sepr. 1812 Sir Your two Letters of the 2d & 3d Inst I got Stockport yesterday only — they shall now be in every res...
Thursday, 13 September 2012

13th September 1812: General Maitland updates the Home Office about arrests made in the West Riding

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Wakefield 13th September 1812 My dear Sir Since I wrote you yesterday I have seen all the People connected with the Men taken up in th...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

11th September 1812: John Baines senior, his sons and friends are arrested at Halifax

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On Friday night, 11th September 1812, the Stockport solicitor John Lloyd, and General Maitland's aide-de-camp, Captain Thornhill arrived...
Saturday, 8 September 2012

8th September 1812: General Acland tells General Maitland he is ready to arrest John Baines at Halifax

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Huddersfield 8th September 1812 My dear Sir I send you the particulars of the breaking of Mr. Lindsey’s Shears on the night of the 6th ...
Friday, 20 July 2012

20th July 1812: General Maitland informs the Home Office that the tactics employed in Cheshire are working

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Manchester 20th July 1812 My dear Sir I some little time ago, stated, to Lord Sidmouth that I was trying the Experiment of keeping a sm...
Thursday, 12 July 2012

12th July 1812: John Baines warns the spies McDonald & Gossling about undercover Bow Street officers

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On Sunday 12th July 1812, the two police spies from Manchester, Gossling and McDonald, were wandering about Halifax when they again met John...
Tuesday, 10 July 2012

10th July 1812: The spies McDonald & Gossling meet the old man John Baines in Halifax again

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The spies John McDonald & John Gossling were milling around Halifax after McDonald had been 'twisted-in' by the old hatter John ...
Sunday, 8 July 2012

8th July 1812: A spy sent from Manchester is 'twisted-in' by an old man at Halifax

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John McDonald and John Gossling were two assistant constables in Manchester. They had both been sent into West Yorkshire by the Manchester D...