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A History of the County of Oxford
… severe unemployment, sharply rising poor rates, and bread riots. Conditions improved only with the blanket industry's … of the masters'. 145 Witney people were involved in grain riots in 1795 and again in 1800, when local JPs reported …
A History of the County of Oxford
… social tensions within the town, marked by recurrent bread riots and by steady worsening of relations between masters … bread-prices. From the 1750s rumours of threatened grain riots became increasingly common, 339 and though anger was … threatened local farmers and mealmen, 341 while in 1800 riots were dispersed only after troops intervened with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 196 reflecting the high bread prices which prompted local riots that year. 197 By 18012 it was over 3,000, around 27 s. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and spendthrift miners, and in 1831 during the wages riots Cameron was active on behalf of the magistracy and …
A History of the County of Essex
… of the woodland of his manor, 64 an action that led to riots. 65 At Monkhams c. 1640 woodland extended as far south …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Rural distress in the town's hinterland provoked food riots at Woodstock in 1766 and tension over bread supply in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… eastern boundary with Hensington manor, he instigated riots; when his party failed in the mayoral election of 1581 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… among his guests there were Arnold Bennett, J. B. Priestley, and Sir Compton Mackenzie. 32 Barracks were built …
A History of the County of Sussex
… held in the Montague Hall by 1884 when there were violent riots against the Army in the town. On one occasion troops …