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## I I Pudsey, Horbury and Halifax mills, a Sheffield barracks and Cartwright's machine waggons. Parliament hastily introduced the death penalty for machine-wrecking, against Lord Byron's opposition. But on I I April 150 men launched a night attack on Cartwright's mill. They were driven off, but seventeen days later William Horsfall, a Marsden manufacturer, was murdered. Troops, Yeomanry and spies were imported, but the disturbances continued, amid rising bitterness; Methodist ministers even refused to bury shot Luddites. Eventually, Joseph Radcliffe of Huddersfield and the Rev. Hamond Roberson broke the organisation. In January 1813 14
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- Author
- J. T. Ward (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1962
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780333029572
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Science, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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