Reference
QSR1801/101
Title
The information of George Sams of Tottenham Street, Saint Pancras, Middlesex, one of the surveyors of the hawkers and pedlars office, Somerset House, Middlesex.
Date free text
7 September 1801
Production date
From: 1801 To: 1801
Scope and Content
"on the first day of September instant Dainel Sherman of Dunstable ..., Taylor, and James Luttley of the same place Toyman [?] and dealer together with divers other persons to the Number of twenty and more , at Present unknown in Dunstable in the County aforesaid Did unlawfully riotously and tumultuously assemble and gather together, and did then and there attack and beset the House of Thomas Hobbs called or known by the name or sign of the Red Lyon at Dunstable aforesaid with an intent forcibly to rescue one Thomas Norris who was then and there in the legal custody of George Nicholls a constable of Dunstable in Company with this informant George Sams and Henry Ramsden another surveyor employed under the Comissioners for Managing the Licence Duties on Hawkers and Pedlars and arrested and confined under and in pursuance of one Act of Parliament of the twenty ninth year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the third chapter the twenty seventh to regulate Hawkers and Pedlars, And this informant further saith that the said Daniel Sherman, and James Luttley, alias the Toyman [?] with divers other persons aforesaid did at the time and place first aforesaid in a tumultuous and riotous manner assault menace and threaten him the said informant and the said George Nicholls and Henry Ramsden in their said respective duties as aforesaid and did incite and encourage the said Thomas Norris to escape from Justice whereby and from the personal fear and danger informant and the said George Nicholls and Henry Ramsden underwent from the assaults and menaced aforesaid, the said Thomas Norris was at liberty and escaped from Justice against the will of his informant in violation of the said Act of Parliament and against the peace. Sworn before me at Dunstable in the said County of the seventh day of September 1801 Wm Mead"
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