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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
LS/343.1
Title
The trials of Jeremiah Brandreth, William Turner, Isaac Ludlam, George Weightman, and others, for high treason, under a special commission at Derby on Thursday the 16th [to] Saturday the 25th of October, 1817: with the antecedant proceedings in two volumes: vol. I.
Date
1817
Publication Date
1817
Author
Gurney, William Brodie
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Further Information
Taken in short hand by William Brodie Gurney, short hand writer to both Houses of Parliament.
Term
Trials
Revolutions
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Brandreth; Jeremiah (1790-1817); Out-of-work stocking maker who lived in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire; beheaded in Derby for treason. He was known as "The Nottingham Captain". He and two of his conspirators were the last people to be beheaded with an axe in Britain. The rising is known as the Pentrich Revolution.
Weightman; George (1792-1865); Transported to Australia after the Pentrich Revolution.
Turner; William (d.1817); Hanged for High treason, aftert taking part in the Pentrich Revolution
Ludlam; Isaac (d.1817); Hanged for high treason, after taking part in the Pentrich Revolution
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