Reference
QSR1801/103
Title
Evidence of Sarah Hobbs wife of Thomas Hobbs of Dunstable, victualler.
Date free text
7 September 1801
Production date
From: 1801 To: 1801
Scope and Content
"saith that on Tuesday the first day of September instant, Geo[rge] Nicholls, Constable of Dunstable, and Geo[rge] Sams now present with two other men came to her Husbands House about two oclock in the afternoon, that while the said, George Norris [Nicolls? sic] and other persons last mentioned, were going to the Magistrate, she first observed the Prisoner James Luttley, shouting and Crying Informer", near the House, and that the Prisoner with other followed the said Geo[rge] Nicholls, and others to the Revd Mr Mead, and upon their Return to her Husbands House a mob collected together as she believes to the number of one Hundred Persons and upwards, who came towards the window pulled it up several times in a riotous and tumultuous manner, & someone threw in a Red Earthen Pan, and she heard several of the Mob say, turn Them Out, "Informers" that Examinant felt herself in Danger, and saw the prisoner James Luttley endeavouring to force himself into the House, by the Street Door, and that He appeared One of the most active in the mob, that Examinant was so much alarmed, that she applied to Geo[rge] Sams to direct the Prisoner Norris to be released, and that he was released in consequence of the threats and .... of the said Prisoner Luttley and the riots of the mob, about five oclock that the mob continued about the House till six oclock, or thereabouts, when she sent to the Magistrates House who was about that between nine & ten oclock the same Even'g not thinking her House perfectly safe she requested that Constables might attend there in case the mob should re assemble Sarah Hobbs her mark Sworn before me the seventh day of September 1801 Wm Mead."
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