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Friday, 28 August 2015

28th August 1815: Thomas Holden's parents write to him from Bolton

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Bolton y/e 28th 1815 Aug Dear Thomas we jointly take this oppertunity of send\ing/ you a few lines to inform you that we are all well at ...
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

26th August 1815: The Leeds Mercury publishes a final editorial on the Charles Sutton affair

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In the last Intelligencer a boast is put forth by the new Editor that he contributed to bring down upon a rival publication at Nottingham, ...
Friday, 21 August 2015

21st August 1815: Francis Raynes receives a letter from the Home Secretary

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Three days after his meeting with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Francis Raynes received a disappointing letter from the Home Secreta...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

19th August 1815: The Leeds Mercury responds to the Leeds Intelligencer's editorial about the Charles Sutton trial

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We [illegible] a moment from more agreeable and more [illegible] pursuits, to notice a [most] violent [and impudent] attack made upon the pa...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015

18th August 1815: Francis Raynes is called to meet the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Charles Arbuthnot

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Francis Raynes' persistence in the pursuit of a reward seemed, at last, to have paid off. His memoir relates the events that led to an i...
Friday, 14 August 2015

14th August 1815: The Leeds Intelligencer publishes another outspoken editorial about Charles Sutton

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We have promised to pay a little occasional attention to the Nottingham Review , and to shame, if anything can shame, the other paper publis...
Friday, 7 August 2015

7th August 1815: The Leeds Intelligencer gloats over the verdict of the Charles Sutton trial

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On Monday 7th August, the Tory Leeds Intelligencer published an editorial about the recent trial of the proprietor of the Nottingham Revie...
Tuesday, 4 August 2015

4th August 1815: 8 men charged with machine breaking over the attack at Holbrook

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On Friday 4th August, 8 men were committed to the County Gaol in Ipswich for the attack at Holbrook the previous day . They were all charged...

4th August 1815: Nottingham Review editorial on the Charles Sutton trial

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On Friday 4th August 1815, the Nottingham Review carried an extensive editorial on the subject of the trial of its proprietor Charles Sutton...
Monday, 3 August 2015

3rd August 1815: Threshing Machine destroyed at Holbrook, Suffolk

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Some time during Thursday 3rd August 1815, and in a portent of what was to come the following year, a Threshing Machine was destroyed at Hol...
Wednesday, 29 July 2015

29th July 1815: Simon Orgill's compensation case comes before Leciester Assizes

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On Saturday 29th July 1815, Leicester Assizes heard the case of Simon Orgill , a manufacturer from Castle Donington, whose Mill had been att...
Wednesday, 22 July 2015

22nd July 1815: The trial of Charles Sutton, proprietor of the Nottingham Review, for political libel

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On Saturday 22nd July 1815, the proprietor of the Nottingham Review, Charles Sutton , stood trial at Nottingham Summer Assizes for political...
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

21st July 1815: The Duke of Montrose accepts Francis Raynes' resignation

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Buchanan , near Dumbarton , 21 st July , 1815. SIR, I received your letter of the 11th July , and really did not feel myself hurt at you...
Saturday, 11 July 2015

11th July 1815: Francis Raynes reiterates his desire to resign to the Duke of Montrose

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July 11 th , 1815. MY LORD DUKE, I had the honor to receive your Grace’s letter of the 6th inst . and have to regret that any expressio...