The Jolliffes of Staffordshire and Their Descendants, Down to the Year 1835: Comp. from Family Papers and Other SourcesPriv. print. by Hazell, Watson, and Viney (ld.), 1892 - 252 頁 |
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15th Hussars afterwards Ammerdown Anne Jolliffe arrived August Biddulph borough breakfast brother buried Capt carriage Castle Caverswall Charles Chester-le-Street Church Cofton Colonel Jolliffe cousin Croome daughter DEAR death Deerhurst dined dinner dress drove Duke of Gloucester Earl eldest Eleanor Election Elizabeth Emily father Gatton George Gilbert East Grandfather Hall Holden Honble honour horses hounds hunting Hylton Castle HYLTON JOLLIFFE Jane John Jolliffe Jolliffe's June Kilmersdon King Lady Coventry Lady East Lady Jolliffe Leek letter lived London Lord Major Boyce Mar.-Mr married Mary Merstham miles morning mother nephew o'clock officers Paget Park Parliament party Petersfield portrait Rebecca Lowe Regiment residence returned Revnd W. J. JOLLIFFE Samuel Sir Robert Sheffield Sir William Jolliffe Sir Wm sister sons Sophia Staffordshire Surrey Surrey Yeomanry Thomas Jolliffe Tilgate took Town Twyford uncle Vane widow wife Worcestershire Yeomanry
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第 33 頁 - W. X., his executors, administrators or assigns ; for which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents.
第 168 頁 - ... being interspersed; and there appeared to be but few women with them. Mr. Hunt with two or three other men, and I think two women dressed in light blue and white, were in an open carriage drawn by the people. This carriage was adorned with blue and white flags, and the day was fine and hot. As soon as the great bulk of the procession had passed we were ordered to stand to our horses.
第 1 頁 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
第 167 頁 - ... or a few hours previously ; and, lastly, there was a troop of Manchester yeomanry cavalry, consisting of about forty members, who, from the manner in which they were made use of (to say the least), greatly aggravated the disasters of the day. Their ranks were...
第 168 頁 - The hussars drove the people forward with the flats of their swords ; but sometimes, as is almost inevitably the case when men are placed in such situations, the edge was used, both by the hussars, and, as I have heard, by the yeomen also ; but of this latter...
第 167 頁 - ... at the distance of nearly a quarter of a mile from it. The Cheshire yeomanry were formed, on our left, in the same street. One troop of our regiment was attached to the artillery, which took up a position between the cavalry barracks and the town; and one troop remained in charge of the barracks. " The two squadrons with which I was stationed must have remained dismounted nearly two hours. During the greater portion of that period, a solid mass of people continued moving along a street about...
第 168 頁 - It was then," says Sir W. Jolliffe, " for the first time that I saw the Manchester troop of Yeomanry ; they were scattered singly, or in small groups, over the greater part of the field, literally hemmed up, and wedged into the mob, so that they were powerless either to make an impression or to escape ; in fact, they were in the power of those whom they were designed to overawe ; and it required only a glance to discover their helpless position, and the necessity of our being brought to their rescue.
第 169 頁 - I had not ridden above a hundred yards before I found a trumpeter, and returned with him to the Colonel. The field and the adjacent streets now presented an extraordinary sight: the ground was quite covered with hats, shoes, sticks, musical instruments*, and other things. Here and there lay the unfortunates who were too much injured to move away ; and this sight was rendered the more distressing by observing some women among the sufferers. " Standing near the corner of the street where I had been...
第 169 頁 - Hussars (two troops) was ordered on duty to form part of a strong night picket, the other part of which consisted of two companies of the 88th regiment. This picket was stationed at a place called the New Cross, at the end of Oldham Street. As soon as it had taken up its position a mob assembled about it, which increased as the darkness came on : stones were thrown at the soldiers : the hussars many times cleared the ground by driving the mob up the streets leading from the New Cross. But these attempts...
第 168 頁 - I was not cognisant; and believing, though I do, that nine out of ten of the sabre wounds were caused by the hussars, I must still consider that it redounds highly to the humane forbearance of the men of the 15th that more wounds were not received, when the vast numbers are taken into consideration with whom they were brought into hostile collision ; beyond all doubt, however, the far greater amount of injuries arose from the pressure of the routed multitude.!