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Showing posts with label john buckley booth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john buckley booth. Show all posts
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...
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...
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...
Friday, 18 May 2012

18th May 1812: The Manchester spy, John Bent, files his latest report for Colonel Fletcher

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On Monday 18th May 1812, Colonel Fletcher 's spy 'B' (aka John Bent), finished another report for his master. On 12th May, Be...
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...
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, 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...