1817 Depositions - Regarding Pentrich Revolution
The following names are recorded in the 1817 depositions regarding the Pentrich Revolution. The depositions (or sworn statements) list information given by witnesses or in some cases the accused themselves and tell how each man was involved. The depositions (where possible) have been cross-referenced with other sources to gain accuracy & extra information. If you think one of the following men may be your ancestor and you would like to know more... e-mail me
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Job Rogers appointed secret committee man. [A. Booth]
A party from thence to join the Wingfield, Pentrich, Butterley & Ripley men on their march for Nottingham. [A. Booth]
Thomas Bacon the Pentrich delegate visits it as well as Leicester. Derby &c and found great preparations were making. [A. Booth]
First heard of about the time of the meeting of delegates in London with petitions for parliamentary form. [A. Booth]
Burton arrived at Pentrich from Nottingham & he came to Thomas Bacons in Pentrich. [A. Booth]
Benbows, delegate from Manchester had been on a mission to Pentrich, Alfreton & other places, to ascertain whether the people in Derbyshire & its vicinity were coming forward in petitioning for reform & to prevail on them to send delegates with petitions from every town & village to a general meeting of delegates in London. [W. Young]
Meeting at Peech�s the Queens Head on Alfreton Common where Thomas Bacon, James Barnes & Benbow transacted business. [W. Young]
Meeting at White Horse in Pentrich called by Bacon Benbow addressed the meeting exhorting them to send up a petition & with it a delegate also. [W. Young]
Meeting called by Job Walters which was held at Thomas Bacons when a letter received from Thomas Bacon in London was produced & read & it was agreed that a Hampden Club should be established. The Club continued to meet at the same house once a week for about a month & was then discontinued. [W. Young]
After the petition was presented nothing done till a month or 5 weeks before Whitsuntide. [W. Young]
Meeting of Stevens & Burton of Nottingham & Thomas Bacon at Nottingham about a month before Whitsuntide. [W. Young]
About 27th April Thomas Bacon (on his return from Nottingham) went into Yorkshire or Lancashire for the purpose of forming a plan to overturn the Government. [W. Young]
Money collected at Nottingham towards bearing his expenses. [W. Young]
Thomas Bacon on his return from the North went to Nottingham & other places & has kept going about the country ever since. [A. Booth]
Went to one Oliver at Bonsall. [A. Booth]
Bacon went again to Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester &c accompanied by one Holmes of Nottingham. [A. Booth]
General Insurrection to have taken place on Whit Monday but postponed. [A. Booth]
Bacon visits Derby, Hinckley, Leicester and other places & returned by Nottingham. [A. Booth]
Preparations making at Birmingham, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester, Leicester, Leeds, London & Scotland. [A. Booth]
Meetings at Pentrich 5 weeks ago and money collected for Bacon�s use. [A. Booth]
Meetings began to be held at Sutton�s Asherfield Barn. [A. Booth]
Committee appointed of men who had served in the army. [A. Booth]
Second meeting held about a week after first talked about making pikes & procuring gunpowder, firearms &c. [A. Booth]
At 3rd meeting a secret committee was appointed consisting chiefly of men who had served in the army. [A. Booth]
Number of arms in each place to be ascertained by secret committee & reported to the next meeting. [A. Booth]
At the 5th meeting (last day in May or beginning of June) most of the conspirators attended. [A. Booth]
Thomas Bacon opened the business of the meeting & stated that the county was to rise & commence business at the same time, which would be on Monday night following (9th June). The large towns would rise about midnight & seize all depots of arms & ammunition within their towns & to attack the barracks & seize all cannon that could be found and mentioned that the party which would rise at Northampton had volunteered their services to secure a depot at Weedon near Northampton. That the rising of the villages in that neighbourhood was to take place at 10 o�clock on Monday night and after in collecting together the several parties were to proceed to Nottingham. [A. Booth]
Route of the different parties proposed. [A. Booth]
The plan of proceeding to Nottingham immediately opposed by some part of the meeting who thought it would be more advisable to seize upon Butterley Iron Works in the 1st place. [A. Booth]
Calculation made at this meeting of the number of pike heads and cannon that might be cast daily at Butterley works where it was stated there were 14 fires going. [A. Booth]
At the 6th Asherfield Barn meeting held on Thursday 5th June at 10 p.m. which consisted nearly of the same persons as attended the former meetings. [A. Booth]
Thomas Bacon not present at the commencement of the 6th meeting not being then returned from Nottingham. [A. Booth]
A stranger who had arrived at Pentrich from Birmingham to which place and other he had been travelling, as a delegate from Leeds attended and addressed the meetings & exhorted them to be steady firm and unanimous assuring them at Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester & other places they were in great forwardness. [A. Booth]
In a short time, a little man from Nottingham came into the barn and joined the meeting having just arrived at Pentrich from Nottingham in company with Thomas Bacon, and this man also addressed the meeting and stated that the men out of Derbyshire must proceed to Nottingham first for the original plan could not be altered. [A. Booth]
Every man who volunteered their services to go to Nottingham to be rewarded with 100 Guineas if they succeeded - to be paid by one Stevenson of Nottingham. [A. Booth]
The Nottingham man mentions to the meeting the time when to rise and that Nottingham would rise at Midnight. [A. Booth]
Barracks and soldiers in their quarters to be attacked & their arms seized. [J. Graham]
That Nottingham could raise 16,000 men. [A. Booth]
All to be ready at 10 o�clock on Monday night & to seize what arms they could meet with in the different parishes through which the mob should pass. [A. Booth]
The Nottingham man stated to the meeting that he was to be chief conductor to Nottingham where they were to arrive about 3 o�clock on Tuesday morning 10th June. [A. Booth]
If they succeeded in taking Nottingham they were to procure Trent Boats & said men to seize Newark. [J. Graham]
Chesterfield, Sheffield & other places would come down to assist. [A. Booth]
Leicester was to be attacked to the same time & a grand army formed on the River Trent. [A. Booth]
The Leeds delegate left Pentrich June 6th for Sheffield & Leeds. [A. Booth]
Meeting at the White Horse in Pentrich on Tuesday the 8th of June, when the Nottingham man produces a map of England &c. [J. Fletcher]
Thomas Bacon sends Joseph Weightman to Nottingham to learn whether the plans still continued unaltered to prevent mistakes. [A. Booth]
A General Person on horseback arrives at Pentrich on the 9th before Weightman returns from Nottingham & reports to the acting men that all things were going on well & no alterations in plans. [A. Booth]
Ripley Hampden Club formed about 2 months before the petitions for a reform in Parliament was sent from Ripley. [G. Burrows] [Isaac Ludlam]
Held at Thomas Moore�s. [G. Burrows] [J. Cope]
Edward Fletcher of Ripley addressed the meeting upon the abuses committed by the Government in the use of the Public money & the unequal representation of the Country. [G. Burrows]
A meeting held at the Methodist Meeting House in Ripley when Cobbett�s Register & some other Political papers were read. [G. Burrows]
Ditto held at Thomas Brassington�s - when the delegate who had taken up the petition for reform attended & informed the club he had been introduced to Mr Francis Burdett, Lord Cochrane & Major Cartright, & produced a statesman London paper containing a statement of what had taken place at a meeting of delegates in London. [J. Cope]
Secret committee in London & its objects explained by J. Moore & William Smith (the delegate) to George Burrows. [G. Burrows]
�Full length Men� meaning of explained. [G. Burrows]
Secret committee - formed in the Nottingham Hampden Club and several hundreds had come forwards to obtain reform by force at Nottingham & others were coming forwards. [G. Burrows]
The next meeting held at Endsor�s a private house. [G. Burrows]
Heanor Hampden Club formed about Christmas last. [Joseph Fletcher]
Two first meetings held at Thomas Allen�s the Nags Head in Heanor. [Joseph Fletcher]
Robert Bestwick & John McKesswick were leading men. [Joseph Fletcher]
A man from Derby was brought into the room by Robert Bestwick, the Chairman this person whose name was Nelson, described himself as being either Chairman or secretary to the Derby Hampden Club & read a political catechism the rules of the Derby Club and several other papers - produced rules of the Derby Club, which were adopted as the articles of the Heanor Club for other members of the club to see. [Joseph Fletcher]
The objections of the meeting & formation of the club were to discuss matters connected with reform. [Joseph Fletcher]
The Derby man declared the objects of the Hampden Clubs to be for a change in the Government of the country. That petitions must be presented by each club for Parliamentary Reform - & if they were not attended to other means must be used as no good could be done & until Old Frank (meaning Sir Francis Burdett) was made King. [Joseph Fletcher]
Meetings afterwards held in a Methodist House at which topics respecting a reform in Parliament & a change in the Government of the Country were uniformly considered There was to be no King & there would be no good until Old Frank took the Lead. [Joseph Fletcher]
About 2 months ago Thomas Bacon told J. Cope there would soon be a general insurrection. [J. Cope]
And a meeting held at Asherfield Barn then about, Thomas Bacon in the course of his speech said he had been 30 years trying to bring about a Revolution & should now succeed. [J. Cope]
The committee men were to get to work to make out the arms as well they could. [J. Cope]
George Crabtree the Leeds delegate, told John Cope, George Weightman & others a few days before last Whitsunday that he was going to Birmingham, Wolverhampton &c to ascertain what force could be raised & that in Yorkshire he had ascertained that they could there raise 150,000 men & that they should have as fine a commander as any in England &c that he was a Colonel & a Squire & his name was Fawkes. [J. Cope]
Conversation about the accomplishment of it, between old Tommy Bacon & the Nottingham Man, at the White Horse Pentrich, on Tuesday June 6th after the departure of the Leeds delegate. [J. Cope]
At the meeting at the White Horse on Sunday June 6th McKesswick & others stated that they would attack the Magistrates houses & named Mr. Radford�s & Mr. Sitwell�s - & would place Magistrates of their own in those houses. [J. Fletcher]
And should proceed to Lord Middleton�s & seize arms & cannon. [J. Fletcher]
Plans were talked of at the meeting on Sunday, as to seizing arms & cannon at Lord Middleton�s. [J. Fletcher]
The number of persons assembled supposed to be about 300 most of whom were armed with guns, pistols, swords, pikes & forks. [W. Shipman]
Was to begin at Nottingham at 9 o�clock on Monday night & to be general all over England as Luke Shipman, of Ilkeston who had returned from Nottingham that day & informed J. Graham. [J. Graham]
The depots at Newark & Derby were to be taken, a man had been sent from Nottingham to Newark to look at the Depot & brought word 200 men were sufficient to take it. [J. Graham]
Pentrich Hampden Club Held about Michaelmas 1816 at Thomas Bacon�s house in Pentrich who was the lead man plans for overturning the established Government were the topics of discussion at the meetings. [James Booth]
As the party were proceeding from Peter Coupes, towards Butterley, Edward Turner said they were going to bring about a revolution. [R.Wragg]
It was discussed at the meetings of the Ripley Hampden Club by William Smith who had been to London with the petitions & John Moore, a collier of Ripley who attended the meetings that the intention was to make the times better to get a reform in Parliament & to make a fresh Government. [Isaac Ludlam Jnr]
Was talked of at various times & at one time it was supposed it would take place the beginning of Whitsun week. [Isaac Ludlam Jnr]
A report prevailed, 2 or 3 days preceding the 9th of June & on that day it was very general that it would take place that night. [G. Goodwin]
About 100 rebels marched to Butterley works armed with guns, pikes, forks &c headed by the Nottingham Captain about 4 o�clock on Tuesday morning June 10th. [G. Goodwin]
A second party about 40 or 50. [G. Goodwin]
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