Reference
QSR1817/231
Title
Examinations and Depositions:
Date free text
1817
Production date
From: 1817 To: 1817
Scope and Content
Deposition of Daniel Gardner, Ampthill who was the father of Sarah Gardner, who brought a charge of rape against Thomas Flemings at the Assizes. He was found guilty and hung, see 365 & 368. Since the Assizes Daniel Gardner and his family have been insulted and frightened by large numbers of people (200 at a time) gathering outside his house exhibiting effigies and throwing stones at and into the house. Henry Goode, William Deverell, William Stanley were amongst the assembly and William Stanley "exhibited an effigy & hallowed" and were "active in the tumult and exciting to riot". Deposition of Ruth wife of Daniel Gardner; saw William Robinson carrying an effigy "hallowing & making a great Noise". Later the same day a "far greater number of people assembled and exhibited three Effiges, one dressed as a Man another as "... a Woman and another as a Girl hallowing and charging the family with having Hung the Man and that they ought to be hung themselves .... her life has been rendered uncomfortable by a riotous mob almost constantly since the Assizes".
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