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Showing posts with label ned is at leister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ned is at leister. Show all posts
Monday, 17 April 2017

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...
Monday, 10 April 2017

10th April 1817: The Luddite, John Amos, writes to his wife, from the condemned cell at Leicester Gaol

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Leicester County Gaol Dear Wife, I write these few lines to you, hoping they will find you in good health, as they leave me in good heal...
Saturday, 8 April 2017

8th April 1817: The Luddite, Thomas Savage, writes to his wife & children from the condemned cell at Leicester Gaol

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Leicester County Prison My dear Wife and children, I beg and pray of you, when you peruse these few lines, that they will be some consol...

8th April 1817: The Luddite, William Withers, writes to his wife, from the condemned cell at Leicester

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Leicester County Gaol My Dear Wife, These are the last few lines you will ever receive from your loving and affectionate, but dying husb...

8th April 1817: The Luddite, Joshua Mitchell, writes to his brother, from the condemned cell at Leicester Gaol

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Leicester County Gaol My dear Brother, I received your kind and welcome letter. I am sensible of my awful situation: had I took your adv...
Friday, 7 April 2017

7th April 1817: Thomas Savage writes to his father, from the condemned cell at Leicester Gaol

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Leicester County Gaol, April 7, 1817. Dear honoured Father, I have just had my son with me, who has informed me of a circumstance which...
Thursday, 6 April 2017

6th April 1817: William Towle writes to his father, from the condemned cell at Leicester Gaol

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TO W. TOWLE’S FATHER. DEAR HONOURED FATHER, I write these few lines in hopes they will find you, my dear sisters and brother in good hea...
Friday, 10 March 2017

10th March 1817: The Luddite,Thomas Savage, writes to his wife from Leicester Gaol

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Leicester County Gaol March 10, 1817. My dear Wife, I write these few lines to you, hoping they will find you in good health, and my de...