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Emigration Learning Resource 1: Sources

Source A: Petworth Quarter Sessions Roll, January 1831 (three extracts)

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Extract 1: The charges against George Welch & William Woods
Ref: QR/W758 f185

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25 George Welch
26 William Woods

Comm. 20th Nov. by John Peachey Esq. charged on the oath of John Gratwick for Riotously assembling and destroying a Threshing Machine the Property of John King at the Parish of Westborne on the 18th of Nov. Instant

TB Welsh – Silvester’s machine acquitted
TB Machinery

Extract 2: Their punishments
Ref: QR/W758 f188

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1 George Welsh_______}



2 William Woods______}



Destroying a Threshing Machine at Westborne on the eighteenth}
day of November last, value £20 the property of John King }
}

  1. G Transported for Seven Years


  2. G. Imprisonment for one Year to hard labour

Extract 3: Another charge and punishment for George

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3rd Counts And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further present that the said James Dorey   Stephen Smith   and George Welch    ________________________                                                                      

on the said eighteenth day of November in the year aforesaid at the parish of Funtington ___________ aforesaid in the                              County aforesaid a certain other threshing machine of the value of twenty pounds of the property Goods and Chattels of                             the said Charles Duke ________ then and there being found then and there unlawfully maliciously and feloniously did                    damage with Intent thereby then and there unlawfully maliciously and feloniously to render useless the said last mentioned Threshing machine against the form of the Statute in such Case made and provided and against the peace afore said Lord the King his       Crown and Dignity.

All the prisoners}
Pleas Not Guilty}

Verd.[ict]
{ James Dorey –  Guilty  }                       } Dorey – Transported for seven years
{ Stephen Smith  Guilty  }   Sentence on } Smith } Transported for seven
{ George Welch – Guilty  }                      } Welch } years to commence at the
expiration of their first sentence

Sentence on }
} Dorey – Transported for seven years
} Smith } Transported for seven years to commence at the expiration of their first sentence
} Welch }

Source B: Westbourne Riots article by P.M. Wilkinson, Senior Assistant Archivist West Sussex Archives Society Newsletter no.6 Autumn 1976 (ref. Lib 16403)

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