CHRONICLE. 



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ir. Bermondsey and its neigh- 

 bourhoo'.l were thrown into the 

 utmost confusion on Monday 

 evening by the assembling of a 

 couijidcrabls number of jouJiiey- 

 men tanners aad others, who, 

 after parading the street* for 

 some time, proceeded to ths tun- 

 yard of Messrs. Timbreil, in the 

 Grange-road, where they were 

 guilty of several acts of outrage. 

 It appears that it has long been 

 the custom with the master tan- 

 ners to allow their men two days 

 holyday at Easter : on the present 

 occasion, however, several of the 

 masters, out of consideration foi' 

 their men, offered, if they \rould 

 work the two days instead of play- 

 ing, to give them a sum of money 

 at the end of the week. Several 

 of the men gladly embraced this 

 offer; but others, of a less indus- 

 trious disposition, assembled, to 

 the number of SOO, and with 

 drums and Hfes playing, and their 

 aprons affixed to long jx)lcs, by 

 way of Hags, proceeded to dif- 

 ferent tan-yaids where the men 

 were at work, and endeavouied 

 to prevail on them to strike : 

 where persuasion did not prevail 

 they used force ; and thus they 

 proceeded till they arrived at Mr. 

 Timbrell's yard : here they made 

 several attacks upon the premises, 

 and at length succeeded in forcing 

 tlie outward gate, and made good 

 their entrance into the yard. Mr. 

 Timbrell came forward to oppose 

 them, when they knocked him 

 down, and were proceeding to 

 serve his son in the same manner, 

 who, however, having provided 

 himself with fire-arms loaded with 

 SBiall shot, as they pressed upon 

 him, fired over their heads ; this 

 by no means intimidated the mob. 



who returned his fire with a 

 shower of stones and other mis- 

 siles, and pressed so hard upon 

 him, that iu his own defence he 

 wag obliged to fir« upon them, 

 and several person* among the 

 mob were wounded. After r 

 short pause they retreated, but 

 went to Mr. Timbrell's house in 

 the Grange-road, wh.ich they 

 threatened to demolish. Infor- 

 mation of these outrageous pro- 

 ceedings having reached CoUing- 

 bourn and Clark, they proceeded 

 to the spot, and gucceeded in se- 

 curing six of the most active of 

 the mob, namely, Daniel Turner, 

 Thomas Goldsmith, Thomas Fau- 

 cit, John AVinch, James Perry, 

 and Thomas Foulke, and dis- 

 persed the rest. These six w^ere 

 taken before Mr. Serjeant Sellon 

 at Union-hall ; and a charge hav- 

 ing been exhibited agauist Mr. 

 Timbi'eil, jun. for firing amongst 

 the mob, the officers took ]\m\ 

 also. 



^\^len before tlic magistrates, 

 Elizabeth Fisher stated, that she 

 saw Mr. Timbrell fire and wound 

 Mary the wife of Daniel Turner, 

 one of the men in t^istody. 



Mr. Timbrell stated the cii'cum- 

 stances above narrated, and proved 

 by the evidence of Mr. Crage, a 

 gentleman who lives opposite his 

 house, and by that of his father, 

 Sir. Timbrell, sen. and his fore- 

 man, Joseph Rolfe, that the mob 

 had forced an entrance into his 

 premises, and that he was in 

 danger from the mob. It further 

 a])pcared, that none of the per- 

 sons wounded were seriously 

 hurt ; and the magistrate dis- 

 missed the charge against Mr. 

 Timbrell, and ordered the other 

 six defendants to find bail to an- 



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