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Misdemeanor
Copy of the Bill of Indictment against Sir Charles
Wolseley and Mr. Harrison.

Cheshire.

The Jurors of our Lord the King upon their oath present,
that Sir C. Wolseley, late of Stockport, int he city of Chester
Bart. and J. Harrison, late of the same place, Schoolmaster,
being persons of a turbulent and seditious disposition, and
wickedly and maliciously devising, and intending to excite tumult
and insurrection, both in this realm, on the 28th day of
June, in the 59th year of the reign of George III of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. King, at Stockport
aforesaid, in the sd County, together with divers other persons
to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, to the number of 500 and
upwards, with force and arms, unlawfully did assemble and
gather together to disturb the public peace, and being so assembled
together, did, by seditious speeches and discourses, and by
other unlawful and dishonest means, then and there endeavour
to invite and stir up the people of this realm to hatred and contempt
of the Government and Constitution thereof as by law established,
in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil
example of all others in the like case offending, and against the
peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown and dignity.

And the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present,
that the said D.W. and J.H. together with divers other persons to the
Jurors aforesaid unknown, on the same day and year aforesaid,
at Stockport aforesaid, in the sd. County, with force of arms
unlawfully did conspire, combine, confederate, and agree together
to disturb the public peace of tis kingdom, and to incite and stir
up the people to hatred and contempt of the Government and Constitution
thereof, as by law established, in contempt of our said
Lord the King and his Laws, to the evil example in the like case offending,
and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown, and
Dignity.

lloyd Prosecutor
John Stobries
Thomas Robinson, High Constable

A true Copy of an Indictment
preferred and
found agst Sir C.W. Bart.
and Joseph Harrison,
Schoolmaster, at the Quarter
Sessions holden for the
County of Chester, at
Knutsford, on Tuesday
the 13th day of Jly 1819.
Henry Natts Clerk of
the Peace.

Identifier: | JB/109/112/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	Misdemeanor / Copy of the Bill of Indictment against Sir Charles Wolseley and Mr Harrison
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::I&M [Prince of Wales feathers] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	35767
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