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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

28th May 1814: The Stirlingshire Militia leave the West Riding

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On Saturday 28th May 1814, after a stay of 15 months, the Stirlingshire Militia left the West Riding for North Berwick. The Militia was the ...
Tuesday, 27 May 2014

27th May 1814: Leicestershire Frameworkknitters publish petition for new prices

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THE Humble Petition of the Workmen, engaged in Plain, German-ribbed, Berlin, Cord, Jackwarps, &c. Framework-knitted Pieces. To the Gent...
Monday, 26 May 2014

26th May 1814: The Reverend Becher reports a meeting with Leicestershire magistrates to the Home Office

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Southwell 26 May 1814. Dear Sir, I have been prevented from communicating with the Rev. Mr. Storey by the absence of his Son from this ...
Saturday, 24 May 2014

24th May 1814: The Reverend JT Becher writes to the Home Secretary with his views about the Framework-knitters Union

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Southwell 24th May 1814 Dear Sir, In conformity with our arrangements I have abstained from trespassing upon your attention until I fou...
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, 19 May 2014

19th May 1814: Nottingham framesmiths convicted of under-employment

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On Thursday 19th May 1814 at Nottingham, 3 journeyman framesmiths were convicted for not working for 8 days before the Mayor, John Allen and...
Sunday, 18 May 2014

18th May 1814: Combination laws used against scythemakers in Derbyshire

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On Wednesday 18th May 1814, nine scythemakers were convicted under the Combination Acts of organising in Derbyshire with a view to an increa...
Friday, 16 May 2014

16th May 1814: William Hay sends the spy John McDonald's memorial to the Home Secretary

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No. 31 Clipstone Street 16th May 1814 My Lord, At the request of the Magistrates at Manchester I have the honor to enclose a memorial fr...
Monday, 12 May 2014

[After 11th] May 1814: George Coldham proposes suspending licenses for Public Houses to disrupt FWK Union meetings

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Confidential. Dear Sir. I have written to Lord Sidmouth by the Direction of the Magistrates of Nottingham by this Post on the Subject of...

12th May 1814: The Memorial of the spy, John McDonald

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To The Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Humble Memorial of John MacDonald of Manchester in the County ...
Sunday, 11 May 2014

11th May 1814: George Coldham proposes new curbs on freedom of assembly in Nottingham

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Nottingham 11th May 1814 My Lord, This is the day appointed for holding a General Sessions of the Peace for Licensing the Publicans with...
Saturday, 10 May 2014

10th May 1814: George Coldham sends more intelligence about the FWK Union to the Home Secretary

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Nottingham 10th May 1814. My Lord, I have heard nothing since my last Letter to your Lordship — either from Simon Orgill or Mr Storey o...

10th May 1814: George Coldham expresses suspicions about the recent frame-breaking incident to the Home Secretary

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Nottingham 10th May 1814 My Lord, I am sorry to be again obliged to inform your Lordship that the System of Framebreaking has again been...
Friday, 9 May 2014

9th May 1814: Louis Allsop passes Thomas Hayne's letter to the Home Office

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Nottingham 9 May 1814. Monday Eng My Lord. I lose no time in transmitting to your Lordship a Copy of a Letter I received last night fr...
Thursday, 8 May 2014

8th May 1814: 4 silk frames broken in Nottingham

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William Matthews was a framework-knitters who kept four wide silk knotted frames in his workshop, above his home on Bellar Gate in Nottingha...

8th May 1814: George Coldham informs the Home Secretary about suspicions that the Editor of the Nottingham Review is involved in Luddism

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Nottingham 8th May 1814 My Lord, In consequence of a Conference with Mr Allsopp I Determined on Wednesday last to go over to Donington t...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

7th May 1814: The Hosier, Thomas Hayne, writes to Louis Allsop about the Hosiers plans to defeat the Frameworkknitters

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London 7th May 1814. Mr Dr Sir I have had occasion to see Mr Beckett on the subject of Frame breaking; he says the laws are not strong ...

7th May 1814: The Hydrographer, James Horsburgh, warns the Home Office about Joanna Southcott

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East India house 7th May 1814 My Lord Feeling and lamenting the deluded and degraded state of many of the lower orders of society in th...
Monday, 5 May 2014

5th May 1814: Percy Bysshe Shelley meets Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London

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On Thursday 5th May 1814, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley visited his mentor, the political philosopher William Godwin at the latter's...