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Showing posts with label john lloyd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label john lloyd. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 July 2016

23rd July 1816: John Lloyd sends the weavers' memorial to the Home Office

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Stockport 23 July 1816 Sir I have since my return from the Sessions seen Mr. Middleton who says he has not heard any more from the man h...
Monday, 11 July 2016

11th July 1816: John Lloyd admits to the Home Office that the local authority is directly supporting the local weavers

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Stockport 11 July 1816 Sir I have the honor now to inform you that I yesterday attended a meeting of some of the principal Gentleman of ...
Saturday, 25 June 2016

25th June 1816: John Lloyd writes to the Home Office about distressed weavers in Stockport

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Stockport 25 June 1816 Sir In my last letter relating to the situation of the people in Stockport, I think I informed you that I had rec...
Thursday, 26 May 2016

26th May 1816: John Lloyd sends a circular to Stockport Manufacturers, urging preparations for disorder

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Rumours are kept afloat of unlawful [Combinations] & intended meetings of the dissatisfied workpeople. The weavers have petitioned the p...
Saturday, 21 May 2016

21st May 1816: John Lloyd sends the 'Death of Calico Jack' handbill to the Home Office

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Stockport 21st May 1816 Sir Mr. Prescot will send up a Copy the Petition I alluded to in my last by this night’s Post – It is temperate...
Friday, 20 May 2016

20th May 1816: John Lloyd sends his observations about local weavers to the Home Office

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Stockport 20th May 1816 Sir I was prepared to expect an application on the part of the Weavers to the resident magistrate Mr Prescot for...
Friday, 13 May 2016

13th May 1816: John Lloyd informs the Home Office of talk of a revival of 'Ludditism' in Stockport

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Stockport 13th May 1816 Sir You are so well acquainted with the dispositions of the different Classes of Society that I need not observe...
Saturday, 20 June 2015

20th June 1815: John Lloyd reports information about a Hatters' Union to the Home Office

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Stockport 20th June 1815 Sir At the last Chester assizes I was concerned professionally in a prosecution against a man of the name of Gr...
Monday, 16 December 2013

16th December 1813: The Stockport solicitor, John Lloyd, sends details of a case of seditious language to the Home Office

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Stockport 16th Decr 1813 Sir I have the honor to transmit to you copies of Informations taken against a man of the name of George Bowr...
Friday, 13 September 2013

13th September 1813: The trial of William Beston, at Chester Lammas Assizes, for burglary

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William Beston was the brother of Simeon Beston, who had been convicted 3 days before of Burglary at Chester Lammas Assizes. It was he who t...
Saturday, 26 January 2013

26th January 1813: The Stockport solicitor, John Lloyd, tells the Home Office that his agents are greedy for a reward

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Stockport 26 Jany 1813 Sir I have the honor of your public and private Letters this morning, the first containing Instructions for the...
Sunday, 13 January 2013

13th January 1813: Henry Hobhouse dismisses the solicitors Lloyd & Allison to prevent them stirring up further trouble

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York Jan. 13. 1813. Sir, I deem it right to lose no Time in informing you that in Consequence of a Conversation which I had yesterday ...
Sunday, 4 November 2012

4th November 1812: The Stockport solicitor, John Lloyd, seeks a pardon for the informer William Hall

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Stockport [near] Manchester Nov. 4, 1812 Sir A circumstance yesterday came to my knowledge which will require consideration, and, alth...
Friday, 2 November 2012

2nd November 1812: The Stockport solicitor, John Lloyd, urges restraint in capturing further Luddites

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Private Huddersfield 2d Novemr. 1812 Will you excuse me when I trouble you with my own private opinion on two questions; viz as to the...
Monday, 29 October 2012

29th October 1812: The Huddersfield Solicitor, John Allison, explains how the authorities got Benjamin Walker to confess

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Sir, In compliance with your Letter of this morning I have the Honor to inclose you a Copy of Walkers Examination. There were certai...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

24th October 1812: The Stockport solicitor, John Lloyd, informs the Home Office that the Horsfall case is going well

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The former cropping workshop of John Wood, at Longroyd Bridge, where John Lloyd interviewed staff on the evening of 23rd October 1812 (dat...

24th October 1812: The authorities leak information to the press about the Horsfall arrests

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On Thursday 24th October 1812, a letter was sent to the Courier newspaper about the arrests made for the shooting of William Horsfall, and w...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012

23rd October 1812: The solicitors Lloyd & Allison visit John Wood's cropping shop, and a new informer emerges

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John Wood's cropping shop, in a photorgaph before demolition in 1891. In the evening of Friday 23rd October 1812, the two solicitors...
Sunday, 21 October 2012

21st October 1812: The cropper, Benjamin Walker, turns informer & implicates Mellor, Thorpe & Smith in the William Horsfall shooting

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By the evening of Wednesday 21st October 1812, Benjamin Walker, the cropper who had been arrested 4 days before , had reached his limit and ...
Saturday, 20 October 2012

20th October 1812: John Lloyd tells the Home Office that his policy of informers & abduction is having results

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Stockport 20 Oct 1812 Sir I was yesterday detained the whole of the day with Mr. Radcliffe at Milnes bridge and prevented writing to yo...