Catalogue description Folios 77-80. Letter from Edward Unwin, Sutton in Ashfield, [Derbyshire] to Lord John...

Folios 77-80. Letter from Edward Unwin, Sutton in Ashfield, [Derbyshire] to Lord John Russell, [Home Secretary] reporting women and children parading through the streets and pelting police officers with stones. Unwin believes they were encouraged by the Working Men's Association. Unwin also reports measures taken to combat possible Chartist disturbances, including putting Special Constables on active service during night hours, arrangements to pass on intelligence of Chartist activity to the commander of the military forces at Mansfield, [Nottinghamshire], and threatening to revoke the licence of a publican who allowed Chartist leaders to meet on his premises.