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Tuesday, 29 April 2014

29th April 1814: The Nottingham Review Editor, John Blackner, responds to Simon Orgill

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JOHN BLACKNER, TO MR SIMON ORGILL, OF CASTLE DONINGTON. SIR―As you have thought well, by " hypothetical inuendos, " to coupl...
Monday, 28 April 2014

28th April 1814: George Coldham sends more information about the stockingers Union to the Home Secretary

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Nottingham 28th April 1814 My Lord, I am very much gratified in being enabled to assure your Lordship that the Practice of Framebreaking...
Sunday, 27 April 2014

27th April 1814: The Mayor of Leicester informs the Home Office that threatening letters are being sent to Hosiers

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Leicester April 27th: 1814. My Lord, I have the honor to enclose for your Lordship’s information a copy of a Hand Bill issued yesterday....
Saturday, 26 April 2014

26th April 1814: Reward notice for threatening letter to James Rawson

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200 Guineas REWARD. MR JAMES RAWSON, Junior, of Leicester, Hosier, has received a threatening letter of which the following is a copy...
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...
Wednesday, 23 April 2014

23rd April 1814: The solicitor Louis Allsop tells the Reverend Becher about his plans to employ a spy among framework-knitters

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Nottingham 22 April 1814. Friday Evening My Dr Sir I could not possibly reply to your Letter received Yesterday Afternoon by the retur...

23rd April 1814: The Duke of Montrose reassures Francis Raynes about the possibility of a reward

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Two years after the height of the Luddite disturbances in the West Riding, Francis Raynes was still pursuing a reward for his services to t...

23rd April 1814: Simon Orgill attacks the Nottingham Review's report about the raid on his factory

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TO THE PRINTER OF THE NOTTINGHAM JOURNAL SIR, Not doubting but that you will give a much injured man the opportunity of defending his ch...
Monday, 21 April 2014

21st April 1814: Threatening letter sent to a Tewkesbury Hosier, James Kingsbury

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For JAMES KINGBURY, Senear. April 21, 1814. SIR, As you have made your self so troublesome, as to solicit the hosiers to take the adva...
Saturday, 19 April 2014

[After] 19th April 1814: Threatening letter sent to a Leicester Hosier, James Rawson

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[After 19th April 1814 – date of meeting alluded to] James Rawson We here declare that your life shall pay the forfit of your conduct, o...

19th April 1814: Further Leicester Hosiers meeting delays decision on wages

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At a Meeting of the Hosiers held this day at the Exchange, Mr. SAMUEL COLTMAN, in the Chair, it is resolved unanimously. 1st. That althoug...

19th April 1814: The Reverend Becher asks a Nottingham solicitor to recruit a spy

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London New [illegible] 19 April 1814 My dear Sir Since my conversation with you upon the system of organization prevailing among the in...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

The Luddite John Hill is lost to us again, just as we thought we'd found him

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'JH' - but not John Hill - the enigmatic gravestone at Greetland Back in March, I wrote about how research by local historian A...

15th April 1814: The Trial of Major Gordon, for murder

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On Friday 15th April 1812, Major Gordon of the Second Dragoon Guards, the former commander of the forces stationed at Huddersfield during t...
Sunday, 13 April 2014

13th April 1814: George Coldham tells Lord Sidmouth the stockingers Union is in league with Luddites

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My Lord I am very sorry that I am compelled to report to your Lordship that the men employed in endeavouring to discover the persons engag...
Saturday, 12 April 2014

12th April 1814: George Sculthorpe sends the FWK Union Constitution to the Home Secretary

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Nottingham 12th April 1814 My Lord The inclosed Articles and general Regulations belonging to an Association appearing to be formed in t...

12th April 1814: The government reminds skilled workers of the penalties & punishments for working abroad

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Whitehall, April 12, 1814. As several Articifers and Manufacturers, Subjects of Great Britain, have, from Time to Time, gone into Foreign...

12th April 1814: Government notice requesting information on frame-breaking in Gilt Hill, Nottinghamshire

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Whitehall , April 12 , 1814. Whereas it hath been humbly represented unto His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that about two o'clo...
Friday, 11 April 2014

11th April 1814: Attacks on properties of the enemies of Luddites around Huddersfield

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In the evening of Monday 11th April 1814, the properties of two of the enemies of the Luddites in the Huddersfield area were attacked. The d...

11th April 1814: Five plain silk frames destroyed by Luddites in Nottingham

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At 9.00 p.m. on Monday 11th April 1814, Luddites struck in Nottingham. A party of up to 4 men entered the house of George Bateman, on the co...