Reference
QSR1826/287c-289
Title
Examinations and depositions: Wm. Heath, Haynes, tailor. He saw over a hundred people outside his lodgings in Haynes, making a great noise, on a Sunday evening. He saw Stephen Sharp strike Geo. Cox in the face. He fetched the constable; the crowd left the green and went into a field close by. Joseph Balls came up to him and said "damn you I am your customer tomorrow night if you will come forward & struck me on the breast. I told him to hold his whip still or else I will find a customer for you tomorrow morning". Heath then left the field. Examination of Geo. Cox, Haynes, wheelwright. Walking towards the crowd he was met by Stephen Sharp who asked him "what I had to say against Wilshamstead. I said no more against Wilshamstead than you have against Hawnes ... I shook hands with him, & then he said I am your customer, & he hit me on the face" "The crowd were hallowing & making a great noise". "I heard Stephen Sharp, George Toll, & John Kendall say that they were the three men for any three men in Hawnes". The crowd did not go when ordered to do so by the constable. After this evidence is a question asked by Stephen Sharp, "Did not you first challenge the best man in Wilshamstead? Answer. I did not". Evidence of John Gudgin, Haynes, constable. Wm. Heath came running to his house and asked him to go to the Green to stop a riot. He took his staff and went immediately. "I demanded the peace in the King's name, & shew'd my staff. I wished and desired them to go home. I told them that it was a very improper day to come to make a riot. Wilshamstead people said they would not go while all Hawnes People had left the field, & that they would not be drove ... they would not go home contented till they had had it out with the Coxes". Eventually after Jn. Green had stripped and offered to fight the best man in Wilstead and Jas. Phillips had also stripped and offered to fight someone in the crowd, the Haynes people were persuaded to go home and the Wilstead people and the constable left at 11 p.m. Stephen Sharp, Isaac Kendall, John Kendall, and George Toll, of Wilstead, and James Phillips and John Green of Haynes were very active in the disturbance.
Date free text
1826
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From: 1826 To: 1826
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constable left at 11 p.m. Stephen Sharp, Isaac Kendall, John Kendall, and George Toll, of Wilstead, and James Phillips and John Green of Haynes were very active in the disturbance.
Language
English
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