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Showing posts with label leicestershire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leicestershire. Show all posts
Friday, 23 February 2018

23rd February 1818: Leicester Framework-knitters meet to petition parliament about their distress

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The Nottingham Review of Friday 6th March 1818 carried the following article about framework-knitters in Leicester: A numerous meeting of ...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

20th February 1818: The Nottingham Review writes on the plight of Leicester framework-knitters

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The Nottingham Review of Friday 20th February posted the following article about plight of framework-knitters in Leicester being championed ...
Wednesday, 22 November 2017

22nd November 1817: The Leicester Chronicle withdraws their previous remarks about James Towle & the Spy Oliver

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On Saturday 22nd November 1817, the Leicester Chronicle issued a correction to a column of the previous week : A respectable Lady of this ...
Wednesday, 15 November 2017

15th November 1817: The Leicester Chronicle reports that the spy Oliver visited James Towle in Leicester Gaol

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The Saturday 15th November 1817 edition of the Leicester Chronicle reported the following: It seems that the person who called upon James ...
Monday, 18 September 2017

18th September 1817: A Leicester Hosier writes to the Home Office about strikes in the trade

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Leicest. 18th Sept 1817 My Lord I hope your Lordship will pardon the liberty I am taking in presuming to address you, but feeling as I d...
Tuesday, 29 August 2017

29th August 1817: Charles Mundy updates the Home Office about the informers, Blackburn & Burton

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Burton August 29th: 1817 Dear Sir I have written to Mr. Lockett to ask if there is anything further material in Olivers statement that i...
Sunday, 13 August 2017

13th August 1817: Charles Mundy informs the Home Secretary of the whereabouts of John Hill & Christopher Blackburn

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Burton August 13th Near Lougborough My Lord I have the Honour to inform your Lordship that John Blackburn came to me a few days since ...
Friday, 4 August 2017

4th August 1817: Charles Mundy sends an update on the Informers Blackburn & Burton to the Home Office

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Burton August 4.th 1817 Near Loughborough My dear Sir Blackburn & Burton have both decided that they should like to go with their...
Monday, 31 July 2017

31st July 1817: Jeffery Lockett informs the Home Office of the outcome of Samuel Caldwell's trial

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Leicester July 31.st 1817 Dear Sir The King agt. Caldwell The prisoner accepted our proposal & pleaded guilty to the indictment c...

31st July 1817: Samuel Caldwell convicted of frame-breaking during the 'Loughborough Job' - the final Luddite trial

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On Thursday 31st July 1817, at Leicester Assizes, the Luddite Samuel Caldwell (aka 'Big Sam') pleaded guilty to frame-breaking duri...
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Saturday, 22 July 2017

22nd July 1817: Two frames sabotaged at Wimeswold, Leicestershire

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The Leicester Chronicle of Friday 1st August reported an act of sabotage that had taken place in Wimeswold in the early hours of Tuesday 22n...
Tuesday, 16 May 2017

16th May 1817: Charles Mundy tells Louis Allsopp that John Slater's wife wants to go to Australia with him

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Burton May 16th 1817 Dear Sir I wish we had met before you set off—If you see Lord Sidmouth as you probably will pray [name] to him that...
Tuesday, 25 April 2017

25th April 1817: Charles Mundy writes to the Home Secretary about the wanted Luddite, Christopher Blackburn

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Private Burton April 25th 1817 near Loughborough My Lord I have the Honour to state in addition to what your Lordship will have recei...
Monday, 17 April 2017

17th April 1817: The Mayor of Leicester reports the Luddite executions to the Home Office

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Leicester 2 oClo Thursday April 17 1817 Dear Sir I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that the Execution of the six Luddites here ha...

17th April 1817: The Loughborough Job Luddites' hymn - 'How sad our state by nature is!'

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How sad our state by nature is! Our sin, how deep it stains! And SATAN binds our captive minds Fast in his slavish chains. Bu...

17th April 1817: The final Luddite executions at Leicester - John Amos, John Crowther, Joshua Mitchell, Thomas Savage, William Towle & William Withers are hanged

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On Thursday 17th April 1817, the final executions of Luddites took place at Leicester. There was coverage in various local newspapers bu...

17th April 1817: Charles Mundy sends Thomas Savage's statement to Lord Sidmouth

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Burton April 17th. 1817. near Loughborough My Lord I have the Honour to enclose for your Lordships information the statement made to me...

17th April 1817: Awaiting his execution, the Luddite, John Crowther, writes to his wife

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New Bridewell, Leicester, 8 o'clock, on the morning of our execution. O my dearest and best of Wives, When you receive this, I shall...
Sunday, 16 April 2017

16th April 1817: "The Last Gift of John Amos, to his Dear Children"

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The Luddite John Amos, awaiting sentence of death the following day at Leicester, allegedly wrote this poem to his children into the Bible h...

16th April 1817: Charles Mundy informs the Home Secretary of the preparations for the executions the following day

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Leicester April 16 1817 My Lord I have the Honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordships letter of the fourteenth & to say tha...