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Memorandum [concerning weavers' riots] recording the detention on 11 May 1720 in...

Catalogue reference: SP 35/21/87

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SP 35/21/87
Date
1720 May
Description

Memorandum [concerning weavers' riots] recording the detention on 11 May 1720 in New Prison [Southwark, Surrey], for riot and tumult, of John Long, upon the oath of Joseph Maxe and by order of Sir Harcourt Masters and Alexander Ward; the detention on 20 May 1720 of Hannats [?Hannah] Kemp and Anthony Little, for assaulting Mary Millington and Mary Wheatley and 'tearing their calico gowns', upon the order of Samuel Parry; and the detention on 11 May 1720 in Newgate Prison [London] of Grace Wollon [Woollen], upon the oath of Mathew Arm of Colonel Pitt's company in the First Regiment of Foot Guards who 'lost his sword and bayonet in the Riot that day'

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