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Showing posts with label quarter sessions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quarter sessions. Show all posts
Monday, 16 January 2017

16th January 1817: James Large & Joseph Allen sentenced to 14 years transportation for frame-breaking at Leicester

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On Thursday 16th January 1817, Joseph Allen & James Large were convicted of frame-breaking at Leicester Quarter Sessions and sentenced t...
Sunday, 30 October 2016

30th October 1816: Croppers lose wages case at Pontefract Sessions

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A court case regarding Croppers' wages that came before Pontefract Sessions is a good example of how the spectre of Luddism was invoked ...
Sunday, 24 July 2016

24th July 1816: Bury Quarter Sessions ends with sentences for machine-breakers and others

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 31st July 1816 carried details of the sentences for prisoners tried at the Bury Quarter Sessions for various...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

19th July 1816: 7 labourers jailed for assault at Cambridge Quarter Sessions

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On Friday 19th July 1816 at Cambridge Quarter Sessions, 7 labourers who had assembled with others at Swaffham Bulbeck in May to demand highe...
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...
Tuesday, 19 January 2016

19th January 1816: 19 men imprisoned for machine-breaking in Suffolk in 1815

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On Friday 19th January 1816, the Cambridge Chronicle carried reports from two recent Quarter Sessions in the county, where cases of machine ...
Saturday, 16 January 2016

16th January 1816: The Leeds Cloth Dressers Union case comes to court

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On Tuesday 16th January 1816, the case of the Union Officers arrested and charged with aiding and abetting an illegal combination (i.e. Tra...
Wednesday, 17 July 2013

17th July 1813: An attempted prosecution for Sedition at Bradford Sessions

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On Saturday 17th July 1813 James Chapman, a worker at Bradley Mills in Huddersfield, stood trial at the Quarter Sessions at Bradford for utt...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

25th April 1812: One man committed for Manchester Exchange riot

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The Lancaster Gazette of 25th April 1812 reported that at the recent Salford Quarter Sessions held at the New Bayley prison, a Charles Duffy...
Friday, 13 January 2012

13th January 1812: 'Luddite fundraisers' discharged at Nottingham Quarter Sessions

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On Monday 13th January, the Epiphany Quarter Sessions commenced in Nottingham. Several prisoners that had been committed for collecting mon...