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Tuesday, 29 August 2017

29th August 1817: Charles Mundy updates the Home Office about the informers, Blackburn & Burton

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Burton August 29th: 1817 Dear Sir I have written to Mr. Lockett to ask if there is anything further material in Olivers statement that i...
Sunday, 13 August 2017

13th August 1817: Charles Mundy informs the Home Secretary of the whereabouts of John Hill & Christopher Blackburn

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Burton August 13th Near Lougborough My Lord I have the Honour to inform your Lordship that John Blackburn came to me a few days since ...
Friday, 4 August 2017

4th August 1817: Charles Mundy sends an update on the Informers Blackburn & Burton to the Home Office

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Burton August 4.th 1817 Near Loughborough My dear Sir Blackburn & Burton have both decided that they should like to go with their...
Tuesday, 1 August 2017

1st August 1817: The suspected Luddite, Frank Ward, writes to Lord Sidmouth from his cell at Oxford Castle

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Oxford Castle August 1. 1817 My Lord When I was taken from my home I had a respectable business that imployed nine frames. but the last ...
Monday, 31 July 2017

31st July 1817: Jeffery Lockett informs the Home Office of the outcome of Samuel Caldwell's trial

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Leicester July 31.st 1817 Dear Sir The King agt. Caldwell The prisoner accepted our proposal & pleaded guilty to the indictment c...

31st July 1817: Samuel Caldwell convicted of frame-breaking during the 'Loughborough Job' - the final Luddite trial

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On Thursday 31st July 1817, at Leicester Assizes, the Luddite Samuel Caldwell (aka 'Big Sam') pleaded guilty to frame-breaking duri...
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Saturday, 22 July 2017

22nd July 1817: Two frames sabotaged at Wimeswold, Leicestershire

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The Leicester Chronicle of Friday 1st August reported an act of sabotage that had taken place in Wimeswold in the early hours of Tuesday 22n...
Wednesday, 19 July 2017

19th July 1817: Pre-publication advert for Francis Raynes' expose of his anti-Luddite activities in the North of England in 1812

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Francis Raynes attempts to secure remuneration for his services to the Government during 1812 had been largely fruitless, and by 1817, amid...
Wednesday, 12 July 2017

12th July 1817: The Treasury Solicitor authorizes payment of the legal bills for the final Luddite trials

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[Lincoln’s] Inn 12th July 1817. Sir. The King agt: Towle & ors Same agt: Savage & ors. I have the honor to inclose the B...
Tuesday, 11 July 2017

11th July 1817: The 'Destroying Stocking Frames Act, 1817'

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An Act to repeal an Act, passed in the Fifty fourth Year of His present Majesty, for the Punishment of Persons destroying Stocking or Lace ...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017

20th June 1817: Frank Ward & 2 other suspects arrested for 'treasonable practices'

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On Friday 20th June 1817, the Leicester Chronicle repeated a story printed in the Nottingham Review: During the last ten days, Francis War...
Saturday, 10 June 2017

10th June 1817: A desperate Gravenor Henson writes to Lord Sidmouth from Cold Bath Fields prison

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House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields June 10. 1817— My Lord I hope after an imprisonment of upwards of two months in close confinemen...
Monday, 29 May 2017

29th May 1817: A writer to the Home Office tells of a Middleton man visiting the late Luddite trials

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My Lord I take leave to acquaint your Lordship that on the 15th March, in passing from Coventry to Birmingham by Coach, I accidentally got...
Tuesday, 16 May 2017

16th May 1817: Charles Mundy tells Louis Allsopp that John Slater's wife wants to go to Australia with him

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Burton May 16th 1817 Dear Sir I wish we had met before you set off—If you see Lord Sidmouth as you probably will pray [name] to him that...
Tuesday, 2 May 2017

2nd May 1817: Simon Orgill loses the appeal of the award of damages in his favour

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On Friday 2nd May 1817, 18 months after the hearing had been ordered , the Hundred of West Goscote successfully appealed the verdict of dama...
Wednesday, 26 April 2017

26th April 1817: Jeffrey Lockett updates the Home Office about Christopher Blackburn & other wanted Luddites

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Derby April 26th 1817 Sir In confidence of your letter of yesterdays date, I have given directions for the immediate apprehension of Chr...
Tuesday, 25 April 2017

25th April 1817: Informer's report on a meeting with the notorious Nottingham Luddite, Benjamin Badder

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25th April 1817. I was with B. Badder last night and the night before—We were talking about the Ludds that were hung , when he said (afte...

25th April 1817: Charles Mundy writes to the Home Secretary about the wanted Luddite, Christopher Blackburn

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Private Burton April 25th 1817 near Loughborough My Lord I have the Honour to state in addition to what your Lordship will have recei...
Monday, 24 April 2017

24th April 1817: Louis Allsopp writes to the Home Office about the wanted Luddite, Christopher Blackburn

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Private Nottingham 24 April 1817.— My Lord— Mr Mundy came here yesterday afternoon, & We have had a great deal of Conversation on...
Sunday, 23 April 2017

23rd April 1817: Jeffrey Lockett informs the Home Secretary that the wanted Luddite, Christopher Blackburn, is in Nottingham

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Derby April 23d: 1817 My Lord The death of a near relation of Mrs Mundy has taken Mr Mundy into Lincolnshire,— and in his absence I pres...