L30/18/5/1

Sent from Leeds, relating to Yorkshire:

25 Aug 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

Hidden scheme throughout the whole country to stop all labour at one moment to create confusion. Expected something of sort "not so soon or so general" returned to Matlock - posted half regiment to Leeds half to Bradford but inadequate; on appeal to Grantham, sent down General Brotherton and 2 Regiments of Infantry sent down West Riding "preserved from most awful state of Anarchy". Own people traversed country to Bradford, Keighley, Bingley, Cleckheaton and York by night and day. 28 officers and 466 men in the field, a number of officers holed, did as men did except "poor Lawley" who went home "of a fits" I imagine must resign. Account of action at Cleckheaton, where 22 prisoners were taken.

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Brotherton,
Lawley,
Robinson, Thomas Philip (3rd Baron Grantham),
Beckett, William

Yorkshire, Leeds, Cleckheaton, Matlock, Bradford, militia, public disorder, CORRESPONDENCE