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Ottiwell Wood, radical Manchester fustian manufacturer [Thomas Walker (1749-1817), Manchester radical; Treason Trial of 1794; LuBiblio.com

Ottiwell Wood Manchester radical Autograph Letter Signed by Wood to unnamed recipient recalling the Manchester treason trial of Thomas Walker and five others 1794.

ref. 81778 January 1844; Edge hill. 12mo 3 pp. Bifolium. Good on lightly-aged and creased paper. Wood begins by recalling 'the savage bigotry and infuriate hostility of the Manchestr. Tories at the time you mention towards the liberals'. He does not think an attempt was made to put the Oath of Allegiance to those on the recipient's list. 'The lives of 6-8 men of high Character and standing in the Town were placed in jeopardy by the perjury of two Villains and they were tried at Lancaster for either Treason or Sedition. I think for the former. One of the Wretches ran away and did not appear at the Trial I was present the other named Dunn on giving his testimony in Court was convicted of Perjury and ordered into custody immedy. by the Judge & afterwards imprisoned for 2 years.' Those accused by Dunn were 'triumphantly acquitted'. Wood names the 'Revd: Jno. Griffiths a Fellow of the Old Church' as 'a leading instigator of the proceedings' against them. Wood concludes by offering 'any information' he can give 'relating to the diabolical transactions of that Period'. In his article 'Luddism and politics in northern counties' 1979 John Dinwiddy describes Wood as a 'wealthy Unitarian' and 'a member of a 'group of middle-class reformers'. The background of the trial is given in Walker's entry in the Oxford DNB: 'On 11 December 1792 . Walker's house on South Parade and the offices of the Manchester Herald were besieged by a "church and king" mob. . Manchester authorities and loyalists had bribed an Irish weaver and local radical named Thomas Dunn to give false evidence against Walker and despite failing to indict him of high treason he and nine other Manchester reformers were charged with conspiring to overthrow the king constitution and government. Walker who employed the defence of Thomas Erskine and Felix Vaughan was tried at Lancaster assizes on 2 April 1794 but he was acquitted largely on account of Dunn's perjury.' 8 January 1844; Edge hill. unknown

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Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution.

1824ref. BB056Murder Trial Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution. By George Henry Jones. London 1824. With 3 landscapes 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel. 8vo iv344pp; half-leather marbled boards spine label "Thurtell's Trial" lightly scuffed very solid and clean throughout. First edition. William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell 1794–1824 a sports promoter amateur boxer a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300 an immense sum at the time equivalent to £24500 in 20151. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt a tavern landlord and William Probert a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of gambling at Probert's cottage at the site of Oaks Close off Gills Hill Lane subsequently popularly known as Murder Lane23 Radlett. On 24 October 1823 they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig but Weare was killed in a dark lane just short of their destination. The gruesome and callous events created such public sensation that it attracted numerous ballads and theatre shows at the time along with comment by the essayist Babington Macaulay and the crime used variously in the work of Sir Walter Scott William Hazllitt and Robert Louis Stevenson. After the trial one of the accused was hanged and another Joseph Hunt was transported to Botany Bay Australia. Charles Joseph Hullmandel 1789–1850 studied art and printmaking and is considered amongst the most important figures in the development of British lithography. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes which enabled the reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings of the type made popular by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay The Art of Drawing on Stone 1824 was an important handbook of lithography issued the same year as this account of the trial.

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Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution.

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The Trial of William Lord Byron Baron Byron of Rochdale For the.

1765ref. 729001765. That Absurd Relic of Gothic Barbarism" Trial. Byron William Lord 1722-1798 Defendant. The Trial of William Lord Byron Baron Byron of Rochdale For the Murder of William Chaworth Esq; Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers In Westminster-Hall In Full Parliament. On Tuesday the 16th And Wednesday the 17th of April 1765: On the Last of Which Days the Said William Lord Byron was Acquitted of Murder But Found Guilty of Manslaughter. Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Printed for Samuel Billingsley 1765. ii 47 1 pp. Lacking initial imprimatur leaf. Folio 12-1/2" x 8". Stab-stitched pamphlet disbound and later resewn edges speckled red. Light toning occasional light foxing light soiling and spotting in a few places slightly heavier to first and final leaves. $200. First edition. "April 16th came on before the house of peers in Westminster-hall the trial of William Lord Byron for killing Mr. Chaworth a gentleman of Nottinghamshire in a duel at the Star and Garter tavern in Pall Mall. After examining witnesses as to the circumstances of the encounter the Lords next day acquitted the prisoner of murder declaring him only guilty of manslaughter: and as by an old statute 1 Edw. VI. c. 12 in all cases wherein peers are allowed the benefit of clergy they are dismissed without burning in the hand loss of inheritance or corruption of blood; Lord Byron was enlarged on paying his fees. Much might be said on the custom of duelling that absurd relic of gothic barbarism; which still compels every man to risk his life at demand on the most frivolous or even the most insulting and cruel occasions. The laws of honour have so little connexion with those of honesty that a man may support his claim to the title of a gentleman by the former after he has forfeited all pretensions to the character by the latter. Sir John Brute is made to state the behaviour of some men of honour very justly when he says-" He comes to my house eats my meat lies with my wife dishonours my family gets a bastard to inherit my estate; and when I ask a civil account of all this-sir says he I wear a sword!": Noorthouck A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark 1773 Volume I:419-450. English Short-Title Catalogue T150380. unknown