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- 0002 accessdate "2014-06-29".
- 0002 date "1810-03-29".
- 0002 isCitedBy Dog_and_Duck,_St_Georges_Fields.
- 0002 publisher British_Newspaper_Archive.
- 0002 quote ""Extraordinary Riots in St. George's Fields. Saturday, a riotous assembly took place in St. George's-fields, for the extraordinary purpose of stealing houses, &c. &c. The following circumstances gave rise to the proceedings:— About twenty-one years ago, Mr. Hedger, the occupier of the once celebrated place of public amusement, the Dog and Duck, in St. George's-fields, rented the whole of St. George's-fields, of the Corporation of the City of London, by lease, in which was a covenant for a forfeiture of a sum of money, if he built upon it. This covenant, he found it to his advantage to break, and pay the forfeiture, and built a number of houses, calculated to last about his own time, but the materials of which are, from the increased price of bricks and timber, much more valuable now than when the houses were built; so that leaving it in its original state, he is a gainer, instead losing any thing. The remainder of the ground he let upon building leases, to expire a short time previous his lease. About three months since, a number of the under-leaseholders, finding their time nearly expired, began pulling down their houses, and removing every brick,&c. from the ground. This coming to the knowledge Mr. Dance, the City Surveyor, and Mr. Newman, the City Solicitor; they applied to Mr. Hedger, and told him they should come upon him for dilapidations; he declined interfering, saying, if they came upon him, he should come upon those he had let the ground to; but that, in fact, he was not responsible for waste, being bound to leave the premises in their original state, and having paid the forfeiture for having built upon them. The City Agents then applied to the Court of Chancery, and obtained an injunction to prevent such proceedings. The rule of the Court, with a caution from the City Solicitor, were printed in large posting-bills, which were profusely stuck up in that neighbourhood; and this had the desired effect, till the beginning of last week, when it was resumed again by several owners of houses. This was taken advantage of by numbers of the lowest orders, who pulled down several houses, during the whole of Thursday and Friday nights, and carried off the whole of the materials. The assembly, on Saturday, being the last day of Mr. Hedger's lease, had a very alarming aspect, being increased in one place to the number of about 1000, who actually pulled down and carried off four entire houses, and scarcely left a brick remaining: also the principal part of about eight other houses, leaving nothing but part of the walls remaining. They even extended their depredations to some that were inhabited, and carried articles of furniture belonging to poor inhabitants, who were obliged to escape for their lives, or the buildings would have been pulled down upon them. The most insignificant detached buildings belonging to the houses did not escape them.—This alarming conduct continued till past two o'clock, when Mr. Newman, the City Solicitor, and several of the Police Officers of Union Hall came, and took several of the ringleaders into custody."".
- 0002 subscription "yes".
- 0002 title "Extraordinary Riots in St. George's Fields".
- 0002 url "http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000311/18100329/003/0002".
- 0002 work "Cheltenham Chronicle".