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Showing posts with label joseph radcliffe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joseph radcliffe. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 March 2015

12th March 1815: Anonymous threatening letter sent to Sir Joseph Radcliffe

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Sir Joseph Ratclitf March the 12 1815 Ludding is going to Start here again there has been A meetting of croppers at my house but I hea...
Friday, 3 January 2014

3rd January 1814: Subscribers to the portrait/engraving of Joseph Radcliffe

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William Owen's portrait of Joseph Radcliffe On 7th June 1813, the West Riding bourgeoisie had given an Address of Thanks to Joseph...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013

8th October 1813: Lancelot Bellas writes again to the Home Office about the spy, Joseph Taylor

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Marsden October 8th 1813. My Lord. I fully purposed meeting to give You nor myself any further Trouble upon Taylors Business. But havin...
Wednesday, 25 September 2013

25th September 1813: Joseph Radcliffe is made a Baronet

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On Saturday 25th September 1813, Joseph Radcliffe, the West Riding magistrate and Luddite-baiter was made a Baronet. Nine months earlier, Ge...
Sunday, 30 June 2013

30th June 1813: A priest from Marsden seeks a reward for the former spy, Joseph Taylor

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My Lord I beg Leave to address you on Account of Mr. Joseph Taylor who has been indefatigable in suppressing and bringing to Justice the...
Friday, 7 June 2013

7th June 1813: "May the manufacturers and the machinery of Yorkshire ever be uninterrupted"

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On Monday 7th June 1813, the respective Address of Thanks for William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe drawn up by West the Yorkshire bou...
Friday, 17 May 2013

17th May 1813: Meeting at the Yew Tree Inn, Roberttown, in support of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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The Leeds Intelligencer of 24th May 1813 carried an article about a meeting in Roberttown held to organise a reward and recognition for Will...
Sunday, 12 May 2013

12th May 1813: Meeting in Halifax in support of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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HALIFAX. At a numerous and highly respectable Public Meeting of Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Halifax, called by the Constables...
Friday, 19 April 2013

19th April 1813: Hammond Roberson writes in praise of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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To the Printer of the Leeds Intelligencer. SIR,—I beg the favour of you to permit your paper to the medium of a few observations on a su...
Thursday, 7 March 2013

7th March 1813: General Acland writes one of his final letters to General Maitland from Wakefield

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Wakefield 7th March 1813. My dear Sir. The Reports receiv’d this day are most satisfactory I copy Raynes’s as the most intelligent, ...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013

6th March 1813: Thomas Shillitoe visit Joseph Radcliffe and also the families of Joseph Fisher & John Swallow

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On Saturday 6th March 1813, Thomas Shillitoe concluded his visits with Joseph Wood, to the families of executed Luddites, first calling upon...
Thursday, 14 February 2013

14th February 1813: Lt-Colonel Lang reports that Joseph Radcliffe remain unpopular

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Huddersfield Feby 14th 1813 Sir I have the honor to acquaint you nothing [intimidating] has occurred since my report of Sunday last. T...
Monday, 21 January 2013

21st January 1813: The political reform campaigner, Major Cartwright, arrives in Huddersfield to the alarm of the authorities

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A portrait of Major John Cartwright in the early nineteenth century, by an unknown artist At 5.00 p.m. on Thursday 21st January 1813, t...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

8th January 1813: Shots fired into Joseph Radcliffe's home, Milnsbridge House

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Milnsbridge House today, as depicted by Richard Littlewood (photo used with permission) Three months after a similar attack , and timed...
Monday, 7 January 2013

7th February 1813: Lt Colonel Lang reports that no-one has come to Joseph Radcliffe to take the Oath of Allegiance

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Huddersfield [February] 7th 1813 . Sir I have the honor to acquaint you all is been tranquil in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield sinc...
Monday, 31 December 2012

31st December 1812: An informer, 'A friend to peace', sends an anonymous letter to the magistrate, Joseph Radcliffe

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On the last day of 1812, an anonymous writer penned a letter containing information about Luddites in the Huddersfield area to the West Ridi...
Sunday, 23 December 2012

23rd December 1812: General Maitland reacts strongly to news that Joseph Radcliffe may be made a Baronet

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Wakefield 23rd December 1812 My dear Sir I find Lord Fitzwilliam has written a letter to Radcliffe, asking him if he would like to be...
Friday, 7 December 2012

7th December 1812: Joseph Radcliffe writes to the Home Office about the recent robberies near Huddersfield

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Sir. I had yesterday the honor to receive your Letter of the fourth Instant saying that a correspondent of Mr Lord Sidmouth’s have commun...
Wednesday, 5 December 2012

5th December 1812: Samuel Harling is committed to York Castle for threatening Joseph Radcliffe

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The Saturday 5th December edition of the Leeds Mercury carried the following item reporting the committal of Samuel Harling, who had been ta...
Thursday, 29 November 2012

29th November 1812: General Acland reports the arrest of a Stockport man for threatening to kill Joseph Radcliffe

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Huddersfield 29th November 1812. My dear Sir, A man by name Harling has been sent from Stockport by the Revd Mr. Prescott & committ...