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Showing posts with label secret committees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secret committees. Show all posts
Friday, 6 February 2015

6th February 1815: George Coldham seeks a trial by Secret Committee for James Towle

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Dear Sir, You knew the arrangement which has made respecting the Prosecutions against Towle a Prisoner confined in the County Gaol that i...
Friday, 23 May 2014

23rd May 1814: The Town Clerk of Nottingham offers his views on breaking the stockingers Union to the Home Secretary

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Nottingham 23d May 1814. My Lord, As Secretary to the Committee lately appointed by the Hosiers of Nottingham in consequence a publick M...
Thursday, 22 May 2014

22nd May 1814: The Town Clerk of Nottingham informs the Home Office of a secret committee to combat the stockingers Union

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Private & confidential Nottingham 22d May 1814 Dear Sir, I write you to inform you that on Wednesday last a very numerous Meeting...
Monday, 3 September 2012

3rd September 1812: General Maitland updates the Home Office about the situation in the North

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Wakefield 3rd September 1812 My dear Sir I yesterday received Your’s, of the 31st, and when I originally got Mr. Park's Opinion, i...
Friday, 22 June 2012

22nd June 1812: The weaver, Humphrey Yarwood, writes a statement for John Lloyd

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As the Stockport Solicitor John Lloy d had informed the Home Office on Sunday 21st June 1812 , the weaver and former Secretary of the Manche...
Friday, 4 May 2012

4th May 1812: Two weavers from Failsworth meet the Manchester Secret Committee at the Prince Regent's Arms

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Joseph Taylor, a weaver from Failsworth recently moved to Club Row, Newton Lane in Manchester, was a curious type. On the day of the first M...
Friday, 20 April 2012

20th April 1812: A young Mancunian man is 'twisted-in '

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On Monday 20th April 1812, a young man - whom we only know by the letters MI - met a man called Whittingham in Manchester. Whittingham told ...

20th April 1812: Delegate meeting of Manchester Executive Committee at Ardwick Green

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The next General delegate meeting of the towns around Manchester took place on Monday 20th April. The disarray that was displayed in the con...
Saturday, 7 April 2012

7th April 1812: Manchester Secret Committee members borrow money from the spy 'B'

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On the evening of 6th April, the Manchester Executive Committee had cancelled the plans of the General Delegate Committee to launch attacks ...

7th April 1812: Colonel Fletcher receives a report from the spy John Stones about plans for Westhoughton Mill

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Tuesday April 7th 1812 /S/has been with Waddington this Morng and told /S/that their was a Meeting last Night of the Secret Committee at E...
Friday, 6 April 2012

6th April 1812: Manchester Executive Committee cancel plans for factory attacks on 9th April

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On Monday 6th April 1812, the 'Manchester Executive Committee' met at the Prince Regent's Arms on Ancoats Lane in Manchester to ...

6th April 1812: Colonel Ralph Fletcher informs the Home Office about plans to fire Westhoughton Mill

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Bolton le moors 6 April 1812 Sir Since my last, affairs of daily become more serious, but as the Post is every moment expected—I defer t...
Thursday, 29 March 2012

29th March 1812: A Secret Committee is formed in Manchester

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In Manchester on the morning of Easter Sunday 1812, 4 men awaited the arrival of a coach from Stockport: they were Humphrey Yarwood, the Sec...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

15th March 1812: Bolton weavers meet in secret at the Rope Walk

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Sometimes after mid-March, around 18 to 20 weavers met in secret at the Rope Walk on Bolton Moor. Robert Waddington was present again, and ...
Thursday, 23 February 2012

23rd February 1812: The Manchester spy 'B' reports on Nottingham & Birmingham contacts and a secret oath

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On Sunday 23rd February, Colonel Fletcher 's spy in Manchester, 'B' , finished another report for his master. On the 17th, he ...
Tuesday, 17 January 2012

17th January 1812: The Manchester spy, B, meets another Irish contact & visits Stockport

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Colonel Fletcher's spy, 'B' , filed another report on the 17th January. Commencing on the 14th January, B explained he had a m...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

10th January 1812: The spy 'B' reports on travelling delegates in the North East and from Nottingham

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Colonel Fletcher's spy 'B' filed another report on the 10th January. Starting on the 6th, he has some complaints on the collec...
Sunday, 1 January 2012

1st January 1812: the Manchester spy 'B' reports on a Stockport delegate touring Yorkshire

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On New Year's Eve 1811, the spy 'B' continued his reports for Colonel Fletcher about the underground in Lancashire and Cheshire...
Wednesday, 28 December 2011

28th December 1811: Nottingham delegates at secret meetings in Stockport

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On Saturday 28th December, Viscount Warren-Bulkeley wrote to the Home Secretary, Richard Ryder. He had received intelligence from an agent ...
Tuesday, 27 December 2011

27th December 1811: The spy 'B' reports about a planned strike in Stockport and of travelling delegates

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Colonel Fletcher's agent, 'B' , compiled another report for his employer, commencing the 23rd December. He reported that on th...