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Wednesday, 22 November 2017

22nd November 1817: The Leicester Chronicle withdraws their previous remarks about James Towle & the Spy Oliver

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On Saturday 22nd November 1817, the Leicester Chronicle issued a correction to a column of the previous week : A respectable Lady of this ...
Tuesday, 21 November 2017

21st November 1817: A freed Gravenor Henson writes to the governor of Coldbath Fields Prison

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Dr Sir I hope you will excuse my not returning your Coat sooner; which was partly owing to its being so extremely wet, that it took nearly...
Friday, 17 November 2017

17th November 1817: Henry Enfield send his bill for supporting Blackburn & Burton to the Home Office

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Nottingham Novr. 17. 1817― My Lord I beg leave to enclose for to your Lordship the Bill of payments made by me relative to Blackburn ...
Wednesday, 15 November 2017

15th November 1817: The Leicester Chronicle reports that the spy Oliver visited James Towle in Leicester Gaol

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The Saturday 15th November 1817 edition of the Leicester Chronicle reported the following: It seems that the person who called upon James ...
Tuesday, 14 November 2017

14th November 1817: Lancelot Rolleston sends the indemnifying confessions of Nottinghamshire Luddites to the Home Office

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My Lord I have the honour of enclosing your Lordship four acknowledgements taken by me in comformity to the proclamation issued last summe...
Tuesday, 7 November 2017

7th November 1817: A Cheshire rioter from 1812, Richard Wood, is pardoned & set free

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Richard Wood had been tried and convicted for unlawful assembly and robbery during the Cheshire disturbances of 1812, at the high point of i...
Wednesday, 11 October 2017

11th October 1817: A correspondent to the Nottingham Review blames Parish Officers for the poverty of Framework-knitters

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At a time (says a correspondent of the Nottingham Review ,) when the public mind is much exercised, on account of the lamentable, and much ...

11th October 1817: The Nottinghamshire Framework-knitters strike is reported to end in failure

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On Saturday 11th October 1817, the Leicester Chronicle republished a story from a recent Nottingham Review, that the Framework-knitters stri...
Thursday, 28 September 2017

28th September 1817: Viscount Lascelles writes to Lord Sidmouth about the plight of the Croppers

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My dear Lord. In the course of the last Session of [Parliament] your Lordship may recollect that I together with a Deputation from the Clo...
Tuesday, 26 September 2017

26th September 1817: The informers, Blackburn & Burton, leave Nottingham forever, surrounded by an angry crowd

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On Friday 26th September 1817, the Luddites turned informers John Blackburn & William Burton left Nottingham for London, their ultimate ...
Monday, 25 September 2017

25th September 1817: Henry Enfield informs Lord Sidmouth of the arrangements for the informers Blackburn & Burton

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Nottingham Sept. 25th 1817. My Lord, In consequence of Mr. Lockett’s communication to me of your Lordship’s arrangements relative to Bur...
Friday, 22 September 2017

22nd September 1817: Jeffery Lockett sends a description of the informers Blackburn & Burton to government

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Derby September 22d 1817 Dear Sir William Burton is 21 years of age, and his wife, Leah, also twenty one. They have but one child,―a dau...
Monday, 18 September 2017

18th September 1817: A Leicester Hosier writes to the Home Office about strikes in the trade

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Leicest. 18th Sept 1817 My Lord I hope your Lordship will pardon the liberty I am taking in presuming to address you, but feeling as I d...
Thursday, 14 September 2017

14th September 1817: Henry Enfield informs the Home Office that up to 9,000 framework-knitters are on strike in Nottingham

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Nottingham 14 Sep. 1817 Sir I had great pleasure in laying before the magistrates yesterday Evening your Letter of the 12r. Instant, for...
Wednesday, 13 September 2017

13th September 1817: The Secretary for the Colonies authorises Blackburn & Burton's emigration to Canada

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Downing Street 13th September 1817. Mr Lord, I have had the honor of receiving your Lordship’s letter recommending to my particular Cons...
Monday, 11 September 2017

[11th] September 1817: Henry Enfield writes to the Home Office about striking Frameworkknitters in Nottinghamshire

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Nottingham 10r. September 1817. My Lord The Magistrates wish me to make a Communication to Your Lordship of the present State of this To...
Friday, 8 September 2017

8th September 1817: A Nottingham Hosier has fears about FWK Union activity

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Nottingham Septem 8th 1817 Sir The very unpleasant circumstance, under which I have lately placd in the conducting my manufactory being ...
Saturday, 2 September 2017

2nd September 1817: Nottingham Framework-knitters Handbill about low pay

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TO THE Philanthopic and Feeling PUBLIC, OF NOTTINGHAM, And its Vicinity, The distressed Part of the Framework-Knitters, UNDER...
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 ...