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Showing posts with label letters to government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letters to government. Show all posts
Monday, 7 May 2018

7th May 1818: Francis Raynes writes to Henry Hobhouse

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No 3 Doughty Place Lambeth Walk 7th May 1818 Sir, Presuming on the introduction of Sir Thomas Maitland to you at Huddersfield in the y...
Monday, 19 February 2018

19th February 1818: Charles Mundy says Francis Ward was central to Nottinghamshire Luddism

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Bath Febry 19th. 1818 Thrusday My dear Sir I have just recd a letter from Mr. Lockett desiring me to give you the best account I can, ...
Friday, 16 February 2018

16th February 1818: Jeffrey Lockett writes to Henry Hobhouse about a confession implicating Francis Ward in Luddism

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Dear Sir Enfield has applied to me for the confession made by Woodward, (who was tried with Crofts at the same assizes at Leicester (abou...
Sunday, 11 February 2018

11th February 1818: The Reverend C.W. Ethelston vouches for the anti-Luddite spy, Samuel Fleming

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My Lord Your Lordship’s letter of the 6th instt I had the honor of receiving on Sunday evening but delay’d my answer in expectation of bei...
Saturday, 3 February 2018

3rd February 1818: Gravenor Henson writes to the Home Secretary, asking for expenses

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Nottingham Feby 3. 1818 My Lord Not having received any answer to my Letters addressed to you on the 10 June last , or & the 19 ult...
Friday, 2 February 2018

2nd February 1818: Henry Enfield responds angrily to Francis Ward's petition to parliament

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Private Nottingham Feby 2d. 1818 Dear Sir The impudence & hypocritical Cant of Frank Ward’s petition (that meek follower of Jesus...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

9th January 1818: Francis Ward writes to the Home Secretary to ask for money to attend his own trial

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My Lord I am one of those unhappy persons who has been arrested and detained under the Habeus Corpus Suspension Act, and was liberated on ...
Tuesday, 21 November 2017

21st November 1817: A freed Gravenor Henson writes to the governor of Coldbath Fields Prison

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Dr Sir I hope you will excuse my not returning your Coat sooner; which was partly owing to its being so extremely wet, that it took nearly...
Friday, 17 November 2017

17th November 1817: Henry Enfield send his bill for supporting Blackburn & Burton to the Home Office

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Nottingham Novr. 17. 1817― My Lord I beg leave to enclose for to your Lordship the Bill of payments made by me relative to Blackburn ...
Tuesday, 14 November 2017

14th November 1817: Lancelot Rolleston sends the indemnifying confessions of Nottinghamshire Luddites to the Home Office

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My Lord I have the honour of enclosing your Lordship four acknowledgements taken by me in comformity to the proclamation issued last summe...
Thursday, 28 September 2017

28th September 1817: Viscount Lascelles writes to Lord Sidmouth about the plight of the Croppers

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My dear Lord. In the course of the last Session of [Parliament] your Lordship may recollect that I together with a Deputation from the Clo...
Tuesday, 26 September 2017

26th September 1817: The informers, Blackburn & Burton, leave Nottingham forever, surrounded by an angry crowd

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On Friday 26th September 1817, the Luddites turned informers John Blackburn & William Burton left Nottingham for London, their ultimate ...
Monday, 25 September 2017

25th September 1817: Henry Enfield informs Lord Sidmouth of the arrangements for the informers Blackburn & Burton

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Nottingham Sept. 25th 1817. My Lord, In consequence of Mr. Lockett’s communication to me of your Lordship’s arrangements relative to Bur...
Friday, 22 September 2017

22nd September 1817: Jeffery Lockett sends a description of the informers Blackburn & Burton to government

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Derby September 22d 1817 Dear Sir William Burton is 21 years of age, and his wife, Leah, also twenty one. They have but one child,―a dau...
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...
Thursday, 14 September 2017

14th September 1817: Henry Enfield informs the Home Office that up to 9,000 framework-knitters are on strike in Nottingham

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Nottingham 14 Sep. 1817 Sir I had great pleasure in laying before the magistrates yesterday Evening your Letter of the 12r. Instant, for...
Monday, 11 September 2017

[11th] September 1817: Henry Enfield writes to the Home Office about striking Frameworkknitters in Nottinghamshire

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Nottingham 10r. September 1817. My Lord The Magistrates wish me to make a Communication to Your Lordship of the present State of this To...
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...