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30 items extracted from HO 42/199. Manchester, Lancashire. 4 plans and 26 additional...
Catalogue reference: MPI 1/134
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This record is about the 30 items extracted from HO 42/199. Manchester, Lancashire. 4 plans and 26 additional... dating from 1819 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPI 1/134
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1819
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30 items extracted from HO 42/199. Manchester, Lancashire. 4 plans and 26 additional sheets relating to the events during and following the reform meeting at St Peter's Field. (1)-(2) A copy of the Wakefield and Halifax Journal, 13 November 1819. (3)-(6) 4 duplicates of a plan of St Peter's Field, with the avenues leading thereto; showing position of civil authorities and routes followed by military units. Scale: 1 inch to 40 yards. By John Moorhouse, surveyor, 1819. MS, coloured. Dimensions of sheet: 49 cm x 59.5 cm. (7) An advertisement of 2 sermons to be preached by Parson Harrison at Macclesfield, 21 November 1819. (8) 'Extracts from the Life of Thomas Paine'. (9), (10) and (14-16) 5 copies of an advertisement for a public meeting at Smithfield 24 November 1819; (10) amended to show a change of meeting place to Finsbury Park. (11)-(12) 2 copies of a handbill urging electoral reform, 24 November 1819. (13) A handbill 'To the Livery of London', 19 November 1819. (17) Notice of location of a petition 'For an Enquiry into the Transactions of the 16th of August'. (18) An engraving of the forcible dispersal of the reform meeting in St Peters Field, Manchester. (19) A petition from the residents of Chudleigh. (20), (21) and (23) 3 copies of a notice of a public meeting to be held at Liverpool, 26 November 1819. (22) A notice of a meeting at Manchester. (24) A public notice warning those intending to attend a reform meeting at Manchester, 29 November 1819). (25) A public notice warning people not to march with William Cobbett. (26) and (29) An open letter to William Cobbett from Thomas Sharp and others. (27) and (30) William Cobbett's address to the inhabitants of Lancaster. (28) A handbill of details of William Cobbett's visit to to Liverpool.
Item 18 was formerly stored separately under the reference MPM 93. Items 21-22 were formerly stored separately under the reference MPM 94
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Items (3)-(6): Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles,c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 3286
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