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Tuesday, 14 November 2017

14th November 1817: Lancelot Rolleston sends the indemnifying confessions of Nottinghamshire Luddites to the Home Office

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My Lord I have the honour of enclosing your Lordship four acknowledgements taken by me in comformity to the proclamation issued last summe...
Thursday, 16 February 2017

16th February 1816: Lancelot Rolleston asks the Duke of Newcastle to pay William Cook's legal costs

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My Lord Duke, I have the honour to acquaint your grace, that the confession made to me, by one John Blackburn, of the Town of Nottingham, ...
Thursday, 9 February 2017

9th February 1817: Lancelot Rolleston sends William Burton's further confession to the Home Secretary

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My Lord I have the honour of forwarding your Lordship a further confession made to me on Friday last by William Burton , one of the person...
Sunday, 5 February 2017

5th February 1817: Lancelot Rolleston says John Blackburn has implicated Daniel Diggle in the shooting of George Kerry

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My Lord I have the honour of forwarding your Lordship the full confession made to me by John Blackburn ; the perpetrators of the various o...
Thursday, 2 February 2017

2nd February 1817: Lancelot Rolleston sends information about other suspected Luddites to the Home Secretary

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My Lord, The two men mentioned in your Lordships letter of the 22nd, as having been concern’d with the framebreakers of Nottm, I have long...
Thursday, 19 January 2017

19th January 1817: Lancelot Rolleston reports the arrest of 8 suspected Luddites to the Home Office

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My Lord I have the honor to acquaint your Lordship, that the confession of John Blackburn has led to the apprehension of those individuals...
Wednesday, 11 January 2017

11th January 1817: A Nottingham magistrates reports that a Luddite has been arrested & intends to turn informer

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My Lord I beg leave to acquaint your Lordship that some circumstances have occurred in this neighbourhood within the last few days, which ...
Sunday, 31 March 2013

31st March 1813: William Simpson is hanged at Nottingham

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On Wednesday 31st March 1813, William Simpon was hanged in Nottingham. Aged about 40, he was a framework-knitter from Bulwell, found guilty ...
Saturday, 16 March 2013

16th March 1813: Three Luddite burglars sentenced to death at Nottingham Lent Assizes

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At Nottingham Lent Assizes on Tuesday 16th March 1813, 3 men were sentenced to death by hanging for burglary. William Simpson, James Barke...
Sunday, 30 December 2012

30th December 1812: Rising number of Luddite incidents in Nottinghamshire

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The 2nd January 1812 edition of the Morning Post carried an article dated Wednesday 30th December 1812 which related the increasing number o...