GENERAL HISTORY. 



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their original plan, were to have 

 arrived at an early hour on the 

 morning of the 10th, and expected 

 to be joined by such a party. 

 This party was seen about twelve 

 at night ; they were drawn up in 

 line, two deep, and a part of them 

 were armed with pikes or poles. 

 They remained assembled on the 

 race ground until past two o'clock 

 in the morning, about which time 

 they dispersed. Some appear- 

 ances of disturbance in the town 

 of Nottingham early in the night 

 of the 9th, induced the magis- 

 trates to send for a military force 

 from the barracks ; and order 

 being quickly restored, the mili- 

 tarj returned to their barracks, 

 and were not again called out, 

 until the morning of the 10th, 

 when they were required to assist 

 m dispersing the Derbyshire in- 

 surgents, who were then on their 

 march. 



Connected with these disturb- 

 ances in Derbyshire and Notting- 

 hamshire, a disposition to similar 

 conduct was manifested in a part 

 of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 

 On the 6th of June a meeting of 

 delegates was assembled at a 

 place called Thornhill Lees, near 

 Huddersfield ; and at this meet- 

 ing it was understood, that the 

 time to be fixed for a general 

 rising would be announced. The 

 persons assembled at that meet- 

 ing were surprised by the magis- 

 trates, assisted by a military 

 force, and some were taken into 

 custody. This arrest deranged 

 the plans of the disaffected ; and 

 the greater part of the districts in 

 that part of Yorkshire, in which 

 £ general rising had been pro- 

 posed, remained quiet. But in 

 ihe neighbourhood of Hudders- 



field, in the night of the 8th of 

 June, a considerable body assem- 

 bled, some with fire arms, and 

 others with scythes fixed on 

 poles, and proceeded to various 

 outrages, plundering houses ior 

 arms, and firing on the head con- 

 stable of Huddersfield, and upon 

 a person of the Yeomanry cavalry, 

 who went out of the town to 

 learn their objects. Indictments 

 were preferred both for the felo- 

 nies and the burglaries at the 

 assizes at York in the month of 

 July. The facts of the outrages 

 there committed appears to have 

 been established by the finding of 

 the bills by the grand jury ; but 

 sufficient evidence was not pro- 

 duced on the trial to bring the 

 crimes home to any individuals. 



From the evidence given at the 

 trials at Derby, it appeared that 

 the Derbyshire insurgents had 

 expected a considerable reinforce- 

 ment from this part of Yorkshire, 

 believing that a general rising 

 would take place at the time to 

 be fixed for that purpose ; and it 

 appears likewise, that in York- 

 shire, as well as in all the other 

 districts where these designs were 

 carrying on, great reliance has 

 uniformly been placed upon the 

 hope of powerful suppoit and co- 

 operation from London, however 

 erroneous such an expectation 

 may have been, with respect to 

 the extent to which it was sup- 

 posed to have existed. 



The committee have the satis- 

 faction of delivering it as their 

 decided opinion, that not only in 

 the country in general, but in 

 those districts where the designs 

 of the disaffected v/ere most ac- 

 tively and unremittingly pursued, 

 the great body of the people have 



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