An historical account of the Luddites of 1811, 1812, and 1813, with report of their trials at York castle, from the 2nd to the 12th of January, 1813, before sir Alexander Thompson and sir Simon Le Blanc [a reissue of Report of proceedings under commissions of oyer & terminer and goal delivery, for the county of York, &c.].

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Seite 124 - Court doth ordain you to be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead...
Seite 79 - Majesty's subject; that then and in every such case, the person or persons so offending, their counsellors, aiders and abettors, (knowing of, and privy to the ofience, as aforesaid, ) shall be and are hereby declared to be felons, and shall suffer death, as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy.
Seite 8 - ... and more violent, till the magistrates thought it necessary to require the assistance of a considerable armed force, which was promptly assembled, consisting at first principally of local militia and volunteer yeomanry, to whom were added...
Seite 132 - Augusta, daughter of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom...
Seite 79 - That if any person or persons shall wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully shoot at any of his Majesty's subjects, or shall wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully present, point, or level any kind of loaded fire-arms at any of his Majesty's subjects, and attempt, by drawing a trigger, or in any other manner, to discharge the same at or against his or their person or persons, or shall wilfully, maliciously...
Seite 11 - June, depredations of different kinds, and particularly the seizure of arms, continued to be nightly committed in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield and Halifax, where almost all the arms of the peaceable inhabitants were swept away by bands of robbers, who, availing themselves of the general panic, sallied forth nightly to raise contributions upon the public. The causes alleged for these alarming proceedings, were generally the want of employment for the working manufacturers — a want, however,...
Seite 8 - ... which they were charged. Some, however, were afterwards proceeded against at the spring assizes at Nottingham, and seven persons were convicted of different offences, and sentenced to transportation. In the mean time acts were passed for establishing a police in the disturbed districts, upon the ancient system of watch and ward, and for applying to the destruction of stocking frames the punishment before applied by law to the destruction of other machinery. The discontent which had thus first...
Seite 12 - ... brother who shall meet me, and my name and character blotted out of existence, and never to be remembered but with contempt and abhorrence; and I further now do swear, that I will use my best endeavours to punish by death any traitor or traitors, should any rise up amongst us, wherever I can find him or them, and though he should fly to the verge of nature, I will pursue him with unceasing vengeance. So help me God, and bless me to keep this my oath inviolable.
Seite 121 - ... felony, shall itself amount to a capital offence ; that act of parliament, however, did not take place till a day after you had committed the offence. " Under all these circumstances, we feel it our duty to pronounce that judgment upon you which the law has provided, and in the extreme in which it is provided. The judgment of the court upon you, the prisoners at the bar, is, that you be severally transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years.
Seite 12 - ... or >any thing else that might lead to a discovery of the same, either by word or deed, or sign, under the penalty of being sent out of the world by the first brother...

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