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Showing posts with label william cartwright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label william cartwright. Show all posts
Friday, 26 February 2016

26th February 1816: The Huddersfield solicitor John Allison informs the Home Secretary about the latest Luddite attack in the West Riding

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Huddersfield 26th February 1816 My Lord It is with extreme concern that I have to report to your Lordship, that a system of disturbance ...
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, 25 April 2014

25th April 1814: The William Cartwright Fund agree to disburse the monies raised

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THE LATE DISTURBANCES AT a MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to the FUND raised by voluntary Contributions, to mark the Sense entertained by the...
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...
Friday, 17 May 2013

17th May 1813: Meeting at the Yew Tree Inn, Roberttown, in support of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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The Leeds Intelligencer of 24th May 1813 carried an article about a meeting in Roberttown held to organise a reward and recognition for Will...
Sunday, 12 May 2013

12th May 1813: Meeting in Halifax in support of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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HALIFAX. At a numerous and highly respectable Public Meeting of Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Halifax, called by the Constables...
Friday, 19 April 2013

19th April 1813: Hammond Roberson writes in praise of William Cartwright & Joseph Radcliffe

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To the Printer of the Leeds Intelligencer. SIR,—I beg the favour of you to permit your paper to the medium of a few observations on a su...
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...
Sunday, 24 February 2013

24th February 1813: General Acland informs General Maitland of Francis Raynes' desire for a job with Government & an assault on an employee of William Cartwright

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Wakefield 24th Febry 1813. My dear Sir. Raynes says he is so little perfectl y acquainted with the places Government have in their disp...
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 ...
Saturday, 12 January 2013

12th January 1813: William Cartwright reacts badly to a request to support a mercy plea for the condemned Luddites

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York Jany 12th 1813 Sir I have read with astonishment the petitions which you hand me. It is impossible you can be ignorant of the co...
Thursday, 10 January 2013

10th January 1813: Henry Hobhouse writes to the Home Office about executions & pleas for mercy

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Private & Confidential York Jan. 10. [1813] Dear Sir, Park has been with Mr. Justice LeBlanc, & conversed with him (in the a...
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, 23 December 2012

23rd December 1812: General Maitland reacts strongly to news that Joseph Radcliffe may be made a Baronet

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Wakefield 23rd December 1812 My dear Sir I find Lord Fitzwilliam has written a letter to Radcliffe, asking him if he would like to be...
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...
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...