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Thursday, 28 February 2013

28th February 1813: A Quaker missionary, Thomas Shillitoe, visits the families of George Mellor, Jonathan Dean & John Walker

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A print from an etching of Thomas Shillitoe, which appears in a biography by William Tallack Thomas Shillitoe was a Quaker minister an...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013

27th February 1813: 'A Diligent Enquirer' responds again to 'An Attentive Hearer'

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MR. EDITOR—It is much more difficult to silence than to confute “ an Attentive Hearer :” but I will make another effort to submit his asser...
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...
Saturday, 23 February 2013

23rd February 1813: General Acland writes a summary of recent events for General Maitland

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Wakefield 23rd Febry 1813. My dear Sir. I went this morning to Huddersfield & fortunately met Mr. Radcliffe, Scott & Armytage t...

23rd February 1813: Nottingham's Town Clerk, George Coldham, has doubts about the suspects in the Samuel Ash shooting

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My Lord By Desire of the Mayor I have the Honour to inclose for your Lordship’s Information the Minutes of the Examination of Thomas Kirk...
Thursday, 21 February 2013

21st February 1813: Lieutenant Cooper reports an attack on the property of a relative of William Horsfall

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Elland 21st February 1813— Sir I have the Honor to inform you that nothing of importance has occurred to me to report this week. To mo...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

20th February 1813: William Hay lauds informers and spies to General Acland

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Ackworth 20th Feby 1813. My dear Sir, Sir Francis Wood (who is confined to his bed with the gout) yesterday evening sent me over your l...

20th February 1813: Francis Raynes meets General Maitland to discuss a possible reward for his efforts

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In his memoirs Captain Francis Raynes gives a description of a meeting he says took place between himself and General Maitland on Saturday 2...
Monday, 18 February 2013

18th February 1813: General Maitland sends a last letter from the West Riding to Lord Sidmouth

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York 18th Febry 1813. My dear Lord. I return’d here last night, finding the unfortunate business that carried me to Scotland was likely...
Friday, 15 February 2013

15th February 1813: The Deputy Town Clerk of Nottingham reports shots fired at an employer

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Nottingham 15th Feby 1813 My Lord By direction of the Mayor and Aldermen of this Town our report your Lordship that a most daring outra...

15th February 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' writes another missive on George Mellor's last words

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Mr. PRINTER.—Sir, —The Chaplain and the Editor are this week silent, and a “ Diligent Enquirer ” has once more entered the lists; it must h...
Thursday, 14 February 2013

14th February 1813: Attack on plantations belonging to a relative of William Horsfall and another man

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At some point during the evening of Sunday 14th February 1813, persons unknown attacked two young plantations of trees in the Huddersfield a...

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...

14th February 1813: Francis Raynes reports a changed mood around Liversedge

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Mills Bridge 14 Feby 1813 Sir, I have the Honor to report the continued tranquillity of this part of the country— I have much sati...

14th February 1813: Lt-Colonel Lang reports that Joseph Radcliffe remain unpopular

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Huddersfield Feby 14th 1813 Sir I have the honor to acquaint you nothing [intimidating] has occurred since my report of Sunday last. T...

14th February 1813: Assassination attempt on a manufacturer, Samuel Ash, in Nottingham

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At 6.00 a.m. on Sunday 14th February 1813 a net lace manufacturer, Samuel Ash, and his wife were asleep in their house at Poplar Place in No...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013

13th February 1813: 'A Diligent Enquirer' responds to 'An Attentive Hearer' yet again

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To the EDITOR of the LEEDS MERCURY. SIR,—“ An Attentive Hearer ” shines more as an ingenious quibbler, than as a faithful Narrator. His d...
Monday, 11 February 2013

11th February 1813: John Beckett of the Home Office instructs General Acland to distribute anti-Luddite propaganda in the West Riding

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Private Whitehall 11.—Febry. 1813. My Dear Sir We have just published an Account of the late Trials at York—which it is desirable t...
Sunday, 10 February 2013

10th February 1813: General Acland updates General Maitland about the siutation in the West Riding

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Wakefield 10th Feby 1813 My dear Sir Having daily expected your return, I discontinued writing, having heard from Hamilton, that you ha...
Friday, 8 February 2013

8th February 1813: 'An Attentive Hearer' keeps alive the debate about George Mellor's last words

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Mr. PRINTER—Sir, when you in inserted my first Letter respecting the execution of Mellor, Thorpe and Smith, the Editor of the Mercury, in a...