| Reference Number | DSCAM/6/2/2 |
| Title | Papers of the Dudley Constitutional Association and other materials relating to riot and sedition |
| Description | Joseph Green Bourne was Honorary Secretary. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/1: Petition to Francis Downing, Mayor of Dudley, to convene a meeting to present a Loyal Address to HRH the Prince Regent; resolutions passed at the subsequent meeting convened in Dudley on 1 Oct. 1819, with draft of the Loyal Address. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/2: Minutes of a meeting of the principal inhabitants of Dudley for the purpose of forming a society for the suppression of blasphemy and sedition, 14 Dec. 1819, with endorsed list of subscriptions. Minutes of meetings of the Dudley Constitutional Association for the Suppression of Disloyalty, Blasphemy and Sedition, 26 July-15 Nov. 1821. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/3: Draft resolutions of a meeting of the principal inhabitants of Dudley thanking the magistrates, the colonel of the 6th Dragoons, Captain Brettell and the officers and men of the Dudley Cavalry, and Lieutenant Wrottesley and the officers and men of the Himley and Enville Troop of the Staffordshire Yeomanry for suppressing a riot in support of Queen Caroline, 19 Nov. 1820. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/4: Resolutions passed at a meeting of loyal inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon Without, 16 Dec. 1820; with covering letter. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/5-6: Petition to Thomas Wainwright, Mayor of Dudley, to convene a meeting to present a Loyal Address, and notice from him calling such a meeting; resolutions of the meetin (of 22 Dec. 1820); attached texts of the address presented to His Majesty by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London, and speech by Arthur Chichester to a meeting in the City of Bristol to address His Majesty. Loyal declaration to have been sent by the inhabitants of Dudley in Nov. 1820 but superseded by the foregoing . |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/7: Address circulated after a meeting of the Constitutional Association for Opposing the Progress of Seditious and Disloyal Principles, heldat he King's Head Tavern, Poultry, 22 Dec. 1820. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/8: Resolutions of the Dudley Constitutional Association, 26 July 1821, chaired by Dr Luke Booker; Viscount Dudley and Ward asked to be Patron and Edward Dixon to be President; Thomas Hawkes thanked for his conduct as a magistrate in suppressing a riot; |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/9: Draft resolutions of a meeting of the Association. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/10-15: Subscription list and related papers of the Association, 14 Dec. 1819; miscellaneous bills and receipts of the Association, 1819-21, one headed 'Dudley Cavalry', others from J. Rann for printing; bill of costs of Bourne and Sons, Oct.-Nov. 1821. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/16-19: Correspondence between George Barker, Birmingham and J.G. Bourne regarding formation of the Association, proposal to unite it with the Birmingham Legal Association, etc., 18 Dec. 1819-18 Jan. 1820. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/20: Copy letter from Bourne and Sons to Mr Roberts concerning 'young Beckett', who should enter an undertaking not to return to Dudley, etc., 5 Oct. 1821. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/21: Draft letter from Bourne to the Earl of Mountnorris, Arley Hall, Bewdley concerning 4 individuals convicted at the last sessions, 16 Nov. 1821. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/22-31: Copy warrant issued against George Walters late of Dudley, printer, on the information of the Attorney General for 'unlawfully and seditiously publishing certain scandalous malicious and seditious libels of and concerning the Government...'; copy affidavit of James Hillman of Dudley, Worcs., yeoman as to purchase of paper from George Walters; letters received by Joseph Green Bourne and others, Dudley from George Maule and Charles Bourchier, both Lincoln's Inn re prosecution of Walters the vendor of issue No. 1 of 'The Patriot', method of proceeding, desirability of prosecuting Wallace, the author; 29 Nov. 1819-4 Feb. 1820. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/32: Copy affidavit of Elizabeth Farrer, wife of James Farrer, as to events at St Peter's Field, Manchester on 16 Aug. 1819 [Peterloo]. In R v Sir Francis Burdett, Bart for a midemeanor, in the King's Bench. |
| DSCAM/6/2/2/33: Verse found stuck up against a wall at the bottom of Common Lane, 19 Oct. 1819. 'The churchmen try hard but fail in the job// To raise every night a church and king mob//...// There's the Badgers the Bournes the Bennitts as well// And Payton their bully that cuts a fine swell//...// Dalton he too a conceited young ass//... |
| Date | 1819-1821 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Printed document |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 33 items |
| Level | Item |