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Showing posts with label norfolk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label norfolk. Show all posts
Wednesday, 31 August 2016

31st August 1816: Daniel Harwood & Thomas Thody are executed at Norwich for their parts in the 'Bread or Blood' disturbances

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Two accounts of the execution of the 'Bread & Blood' rioters Daniel Harwood & Thomas Thody appear in the local press, both o...
Tuesday, 16 August 2016

16th August 1816: The trial of the Feltwell & Downham Market rioters, at Norfolk Assizes

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The Norfolk Chronicle of 24th August 1816, carried an extensive report about the trials of those charged with rioting in Feltwell and Downha...
Sunday, 17 July 2016

17th July 1816: Four jailed for destroying a Threshing Machine at Hockham, Norfolk

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At the Norfolk County Session on Wednesday 17th July 1816, 4 prisoners were jailed for destroying a Threshing Machine at Hockham on 19th Ma...
Saturday, 16 July 2016

16th July 1816: One rioter imprisoned for Norwich riot in May 1816

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On Tuesday 16th July 1816, the Norwich Quarter Sessions commenced & the trials included cases of rioting that took place in the city in...
Wednesday, 15 June 2016

15th June 1816: 'On the Impolicy of Using Thrashing Machines'

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THRASHING MACHINES. To the Printers of the Norfolk Chronicle. GENTLEMEN,—In the Farmers’ Journal of this week is a letter "ON THE...
Wednesday, 8 June 2016

8th June 1816: A Clerk to Norfolk magistrates has concerns that risings are still being planned in East Anglia

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My Lord [Suffield] Mr. Robert Harvey a Farmer & Miller of respectability and considerable property called upon the late this evening t...
Sunday, 5 June 2016

5th June 1816: A Norfolk magistrate writes to the press about his role in suppressing disturbances at Brandon

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE BURY POST. SIR, Tofts Hall , June 2 d , 1816. AS the conduct of the Magistrates at Brandon has been censured b...
Monday, 30 May 2016

30th May 1816: Robert Plumptre sends an update on arrests & prisoners at Norwich to the Home Office

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Norwich 30th May 1816 Sir, Having been absent from home, when your letter arrived yesterday, I could not answer it by the return of the ...
Wednesday, 25 May 2016

25th May 1816: Government Proclamation on the East Anglian disturbances

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PROCLAMATION Whitehall, 25 May 1816.  WHEREAS it has been humbly represented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that a great N...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

24th May 1816: Thomas Jessop writes a worried letter to the Home Secretary about Norfolk

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Wednesy. Evg. 10 o'clock. [24th May 1816] My Lord, I arrived about an hour & a half I arrived about an hour and a half ago from ...

24th May 1816: Labourers from Outwell, Norfolk, march to Upwell for "Bread, beer & blood"

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Peacock (1965, p.116) has a good description of events at Outwell & Upwell in Norfolk on Friday 24th May 1816: Between nine and ten o...
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24th May 1816: Further disturbances at Downham Market - arrests follow

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Peacock (196, p.92) gave a brief description of further disturbances at Downham Market on Friday 24th May 1816: On the Friday (after the L...
Monday, 23 May 2016

23rd May 1816: Littleport labourers march on Ely, where rioting commences

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Peacock (1965, pp.100-106) continued to give a good account of the proceedings in Cambridgeshire on Thursday 23rd May 1816:  Dennis and t...
Saturday, 21 May 2016

21st May 1816: Benjamin Barker tells the Home Secretary he has prevented a riot at Rockland, Norfolk

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Parsonage Caston near Watton May 21 1816 My Lord As I was stepping into my carriage this morning to go a journey I was informed is a gr...
Friday, 20 May 2016

20th May 1816: Riot averted at Mundford, Norfolk

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 29th May 1816 briefly reported that a riot had been averted at Mundford, Norfolk on Monday 20th May 1816: ...

20th May 1816: Serious rioting in Downham Market

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Early on Monday 20th May 1816, serious rioting broke out in Downham Market, lasting all of the day. Norfolk. Peacock (1965, pp.87-92) gave ...
Thursday, 19 May 2016

19th May 1816: 3 threshing machines destroyed in Norfolk & Suffolk

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On Sunday 19th May 1816, actions against threshing machines took place in both Norfolk & Suffolk. In the morning at Hockham in Norfolk...

19th May 1816: "...we mean to circulate your blood with the leave of God", Ashill, Norfolk

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On the morning of Sunday 19th May 1816, the servants of Reverend Bartholomew Edwards of Ashill, Norfolk found an anonymous letter at the ent...
Wednesday, 18 May 2016

18th May 1816: Arson at Dickleburgh, Norfolk

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The Norfolk Chronicle of 25th May 1816 carried a brief report and reward notice regarding a case of apparent arson that occurred in the eve...

18th May 1816: John Patteson sends another update about the situation in Norwich

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Norwich 18 May 1816 My Lord By yesterdays mail I had the honor, at the desire of our mayor, to give your Lordship a circumstantial Accou...