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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… once more exposed to the sury of the mob. The insatuated rioters, amidst their zeal against popery, had been …
Old and New London
… to use a Dissenting preacher as a holocaust. The rioters at last threatened the Bank. The Queen at once sent … the cavalry. But the question needed no answer, for the rioters at once dispersed. In 1713 the Bank charter was … pulled down for fear it should ever be occupied by rioters, and three taverns, too, on the south side, in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… addressed to a false mayor and by inciting to riot. The rioters were prosecuted, with Government support, and a Whig …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… for confining prisoners before trial. 439 Agricultural rioters were detained there in 1830. 440 There was no debtor, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 182 Public opinion seems to have been on the side of the rioters, for though the deed was not denied, their …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… had great numbers of hearers; Visit. P. at Chester. The rioters were led by Thomas Siddall, a blacksmith. They … riot; a corn mill at Clayton was destroyed. Four of the rioters were killed. See the account in Manch. Constables' …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… University which led to St. Mary's being ransacked by the rioters in 1381. In 1574 the town officers were elected in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and the quarrels of Protestants and Catholics were to the rioters of 1549 far less important than the quarrel between … was no longer there; it was an ex-bailiff whose hedges the rioters were tearing down, and the Mayor, far from leading …
A History of the County of Warwick
… reception of royalty to the triumphal procession of the rioters who had torn down Bristow's enclosures at Whitley in …