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Showing posts with label rawfolds mill. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 December 2015

12th December 1815: William Cartwright thanks the Home Secretary for the £300 reward sent to him

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Rawfolds December 12. 1815 My Lord I have the Honor to acknowledge the receipt of Three Hundred Pounds, convey’d to me, by your Lordship...
Friday, 7 June 2013

7th June 1813: "May the manufacturers and the machinery of Yorkshire ever be uninterrupted"

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On Monday 7th June 1813, the respective Address of Thanks for William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe drawn up by West the Yorkshire bou...
Thursday, 28 March 2013

28th March 1813: John Drake's Tenters are smashed again at Longroyd Bridge

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On Sunday 28th March 1813, six weeks after a similar attack , the Tenters belonging to John Drake, the father of Joseph Drake who gave evid...
Sunday, 17 March 2013

17th March 1813: Cases at the York Lent Assizes

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The York Lent Assizes for 1813 concluded with sentencing on Wednesday 17th March, but by then, several cases connected with the Luddites had...
Thursday, 14 March 2013

14th March 1813: Captain Francis Raynes informs General Acland that William Cartwright wants to reduce the guard at Rawfolds Mill

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Mill bridge 14th March 1813 Sir Since I had last the Honor to report to you I have heard a good deal dissatisfaction express’d by tho...
Thursday, 14 February 2013

14th February 1813: Attack on the Tenters of a relative of a witness at the York Special Commission

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John Drake senior was a cropper who kept Tenters at his home at Longroyd Bridge. At some point during the evening of Sunday 14th February 1...
Wednesday, 30 January 2013

30th January 1813: William Cartwright tells General Acland that Joseph Mellor is lying

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Rawfolds January 30 ’13 Sir I omitted to inform you in the Hurry of my last seeing you that on reading the paragraph in the Mercury of ...
Wednesday, 9 January 2013

9th January 1813: The trial of the men accused of attacking Rawfolds Mill

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On Saturday 9th January 1813, the day after George Mellor, William Thorpe & Thomas Smith had been executed, the trial commenced of sever...
Sunday, 2 December 2012

2nd December 1812: William Cartwright pens a grovelling letter to the Home Secretary

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Rawfolds near Leeds December 2. 1812 My Lord I trust your Lordship will pardon, my trespassing on your Attention, to Express the livel...
Thursday, 1 November 2012

1st November 1812: Lieutenant Cooper names a suspect involved in the attack on Rawfolds Mill

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Elland 1st November 1812. Sir. I have the Honor to inform you that nothing very material has occurred since my last Report to you, Ell...
Monday, 22 October 2012

22nd October 1812: A new informer appears & Jonathan Dean confesses to being at the 'Rawfolds Fight'

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By Thursday 22nd October 1812, two more statements were sworn before Joseph Radcliffe at Milnsbridge House. The first was from William Hal...
Sunday, 21 October 2012

21st October 1812: The cropper, Benjamin Walker, turns informer & implicates Mellor, Thorpe & Smith in the William Horsfall shooting

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By the evening of Wednesday 21st October 1812, Benjamin Walker, the cropper who had been arrested 4 days before , had reached his limit and ...
Tuesday, 2 October 2012

2nd October 1812: Joshua Haigh is committed to York Castle

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On Friday 2nd October 1812 Joshua Haigh , the soldier who had confessed to killing William Horsfall and being involved in the attack on Raw...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

11th September 1812: Captain Raynes writes about a plot to blow up Rawfolds Mill

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Mill bridge 11th Sepr. 1812 Sir, I have the Honor to enclose the Copy of a Letter I yesterday received Lieutenant General Maitland. In c...
Thursday, 6 September 2012

6th September 1812: James Starkey meets the spies Robertson and Ashworth to show them his plans for Rawfolds Mill

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On Sunday morning 6th September 1812, the two spies James Robertson and George Ashworth met the would-be Luddite, James Starkey at the Glob...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012

5th September 1812: Two spies meet a would-be Luddite with plans to blow up Rawfolds Mill

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On Saturday evening, the 5th of September 1812, James Robertson, a private in the Stirlingshire Militia and George Ashworth, a Special Const...

5th September 1812: William Cartwright informs on those he suspects were involved in the Southowram attack

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Saturday morning Sep 5 ‘12 Sir, I this Evening learn that the mob have destroyd the Machinery of a Mr Waterhouse at Halifax, assume thi...
Monday, 23 July 2012

23rd July 1812: The trial of Patrick Doring at York Summer Assizes

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The Leeds Mercury of 25th July 1812, carried the details of the trial of Patrick Doring, who was accused of threatening the lives of Mary an...
Sunday, 22 July 2012

22nd July 1812: The trial of James Oldroyd at York Summer Assizes

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The Leeds Mercury of 25th July 1812, carried the details of the trial of James Oldroyd, who was accused of being present at the attack on Ra...
Saturday, 7 July 2012

7th July 1812: Patrick Doring of Scholes arrested for intimidating witnesses

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On Tuesday 7th July 1812, Patrick Doring of Scholes, aka Dr. Patrick Bell, was arrested. He was accused of intimidating Mary & Joseph Cu...