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Showing posts with label john knight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john knight. Show all posts
Monday, 27 August 2012

27th August 1812: The trial of the 'Manchester 38' at Lancaster Assizes

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Lancaster Castle c.1830: an engraving by Richard Parry from an original by William Westall More than 2 months after they had been arreste...
Saturday, 18 August 2012

18th August 1812: John Knight of the 'Manchester 38' writes to his wife from Lancaster Castle

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Unbeknown to them, the letters of the 'Manchester 38' - imprisoned and awaiting trial at Lancaster Castle - were being intercepted,...
Saturday, 7 July 2012

7th July 1812: Colonel Fletcher & his spy, John Stones, observe the 'Manchester 38' in Gaol

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In his account of the arrest and trial of the 'Manchester 38', John Knight recounts a chilling episode that took place at the New B...
Wednesday, 13 June 2012

13th June 1812: The 37 prisoners at the New Bailey become the 'Manchester 38' and are committed to Lancaster Castle

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Between 4.00 and 5.00 p.m. on Saturday 13th June, the 37 men arrested at a meeting at the Prince Regents Arms on 11th June were in court aga...
Tuesday, 12 June 2012

12th June 1812: The 37 men arrested in Manchester are charged in Court

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After their arrest the previous evening, the 37 men from the meeting at the Prince Regents Arms were taken to the New Bailey Prison at Salfo...
Monday, 11 June 2012

11th June 1812: 37 men arrested at Peace & Parliamentary Reform meeting in Manchester

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The White House (previously the Prince Regent's Arms) in 1967 In the evening of Thursday June 11th 1812, political repression in the ...