https://www.judymeewezen.net/thistlewood daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606572ee66cdaa1bfb01773e/1617261314992/thistlewood+lithograph+scharf+BM+1817.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603b68b44d006a40048606ad/1617116072354/family+tree+this2021-02-27.png ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603a5e6ab5aaae47e8748585/1615469854172/tupholme+hall.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD TUPHOLME HALL, about 1982, SHORTLY BEFORE DEMOLITION https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6040bd08bf847714860e2d83/1614856591448/33+pop+concert+with+tupholme+hall+rear+right+bh+Peter+Dawson.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6040bced8587ae53707b6636/1614856568903/festival+poster.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60633d53991d016e8c7bc040/1617116512759/Clare+Market+today+.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD Clare Market today. Author’s snapshot, 2007 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6043228264f05d39e93ad91d/1617116671509/The-Family-of-Sir-Robert-Vyner.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6040c79f8587ae53707bfe64/1617116624008/41.+Gautby+Church+Henry+Vyner.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD HENRY VYNER (b. 1805) appears Turtle Soup for the King (August, 1819) as, by coincidence, at the same time, does his father’s aristocratic half brother, Pelham, an associate of the Regent (soon to be King). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6040cc51cf55a80ebad33974/1617257473210/GAUTBY%2C+all+saints+church%2C+1784jpg.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6053159015297466c8d4c0d5/1616057754729/thomas+Spence+token+halfp+%281%29.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605315661146b33d420edf6b/1616057726707/THOMAS+sPENCE%2C+PIGS+MEAT.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6053153f3dbc3104834eeccb/1616057674113/rights-of-infants.jpeg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6054bf09641f98084d0bd947/1616167005655/29.+Ship+Tavern%2C+Little+Turnstile.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD - Each of the Spenceans who made their way into The Ship dropped a penny into the collection box in anticipation of a talk, entitled “New Ploughs and Ploughing”. Turtle Soup for the King 28th July, 1794 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60431c736e757e450070a95c/1617261164090/cato%2Bstreet%2Bugly%2Bdavidson%252C%2Bcruikshank%2B1820.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD From George Cruikshank, A Radical Parliament. Published 1st May, 1821. Courtesy British Museum Images. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6065609d98a2ef47081cf7ad/1617256628268/richard%252Bsmithers%252BCRUIKSHANK%252B1820%252Bbm%252B.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD - THE UNEXPECTED VICTIM Bow Street Runner, Richard Smithers dies shortly after the police raid at Cato Street. First to climb the ladder to the loft, his arrival startles the conspirators and he is stabbed by Thistlewood’s sword. He leaves a wife and two children. George Cruikshank, 1820, Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603f94aaf8210b14e52abc04/1614779573821/thistlewood+advert.png ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603f2c4642666b391e4ed680/1614752840210/breadnut.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603f2b977bbb3f19db115a82/1614752915881/lincolnshire+wheat.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603f34ecb6ab5d4c11885fe1/1633343812997/Thomas+Thistlewood+selling+breadnut.png ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD Montego Bay Times, February 1781. (Professor Douglas Hall records that the ailing Thomas Thistlewood paid three dollars for the above advertisement, but failed to sell his property.) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603f3ca084cc3700bfb486e4/1614762591910/thos+thistlewood+diary.png ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6052f9a66dc1304846b28d51/1616051036002/susan+thistlewood.png ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD - She sat on the yellow settee, watching them with a composure so rare in the senior officer’s experience, that it unsettled him. He flipped open her book to examine it for seditious content. Finding the work to be not only poetic, but authored by a female, he raised his eyebrows and let it be. Turtle Soup for the King, 23rd February, 1820 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606565c7e0ebb2653be611a5/1617258184841/felicia%2Bhemans%252C%2Bedward%2Bsmith%2B1836%252C%2B.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD Felicia Dorothea Hermans by Edward Smith, 1836 Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6052fe2a84b9257c02cbdbde/1616839080859/Ex+Wilkinson%27s+shop%2C+2014.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD After her husband’s death, Susan Thistlewood returns to Horncastle . When the author visited her father’s former shop in 2014, the occupants knew nothing of this history, but reported anxious, ghostly noises behind the fire-place. . https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60533364743e504bfb380918/1616065398906/DAVID+BENSON+as+THISTLEWOOD+.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD - THEATRE Cato Street, 1820 is written and performed by David Benson (pictured). Defined as “personal reflections on the story of Arthur Thistlewood and company”, it was first presented at the Edinburgh Fringe, 2019 and ends with a moving, original song on the theme of Give us Liberty or Give us Death. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/603a66cfca355d0ac5d6c1d4/1614440308558/30.+Horsington%2C+Thistlewood%27s+birthplace.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD Arthur Thistlewood's birthplace. Burnett's shop, Horsington https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a4e4b31535c4bb9d45379/603a4e4b31535c4bb9d4537c/1600982304465/AroHa-2.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/603a6872b1d9d26b2d1e62f3/1614440616687/34b+Tupholme+abbey+ruins.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD Tupholme Abbey ruins https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a4e4b31535c4bb9d45379/603a4e4b31535c4bb9d4537a/1589986302288/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/603a67c4db382227fb60c9ba/1614440529431/Old%2BGrammar%2Bschool%252C%2BHorncastle%2B.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD Horncastle's old grammar school https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/603b6a760180d028666c3ce3/1614508484483/36%252C%2B%2BDr%2BHarrison%2527s%2Bhome%2Band%2Basylum%252C%2BWest%2BSt.%2BHorncastle.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD Once the home on West Street, Horncastle of experimental physician, Dr Edward Harrison and his wife, Margaret https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a4e4b31535c4bb9d45379/603a4e4b31535c4bb9d4537e/1600982304469/AroHa_3.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/603b6a914b9054350973d190/1614508515472/35.+Horncastle+The+Old+Dispensary.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD The Free Dispensary in Horncastle, opened 1789 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/603b6aab5e1da817afcd95d6/1614508836875/37.+5+High+Street%2C+Horncastle%2C+formerly+Wilkinsons+butchers%2C.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD The present green grocer at 5, High Street, Horncastle was once Wilkinson's butchers and belonged to the parents of Susan Thistlewood (family tree no 15) . https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/603b6adce6e7b15cb2f7c5b2/1614508994986/39.+Horncastle%2C+The+Bull.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD The Bull at Horncastle, probably frequented by the Thistlewoods, had a ballroom for civic meetings, sometimes chaired by Lord of The Manor, Sir Joseph Banks https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/603b6afcf34f6a4fbeb305fc/1614509095000/40.+Gautby+Hall+stables.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD When Gautby Hall, home of the Vyners, burnt down, the stable block, lake and gardens survived. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/603a65d44f7eff1aa5de37a8/60536e3ed3e9a06722eb111a/1616080446587/Clare+Market+design%2C+010907.jpg ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD https://www.judymeewezen.net/davidson daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6065766f7b420f317414119d/1617262237787/4.Conspirator%252C%2BWilliam%2BDavidson.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60646ba55db01c73ea310320/1617193947762/St_Mary%27s_Church_Classical.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON St Mary’s Church and Market, Lichfield (early 19th century) Watercolour by W.G Herdman, source unknown https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6040db1e15fc37004bdca62a/1617194328492/Neale%281818%29_p4.048_-_Sandon_Hall%2C_Staffordshire.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON Sandon Hall, Stafforshire The hall burnt down in 1848 and was rebuilt in neo-Jacobean style in 1854. The present residents are descended from Lord Harrowby. Parts of the building and extensive grounds are in use for exclusive functions, including weddings. Sandon Hall by JF Neale, 1818. British Museum Image https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6040dad393eaa01f724625cf/1615462134341/675475001.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON Dudley Ryder, Lord Harrowby, by Samuel Agar, 1813.Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6040dfdabbcd3b44562411b6/1614865071474/21.+Millennium+Hotel%2C+Grosvenor+Sq.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON Grosvenor Square, London The flags mark the Millennium Hotel. Formerly the home of Lord Harrowby, in 2006, the building became the site of a successful assassination - of the Russian writer, Alexander Litvinenko. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6057214a777d1e2dc1a1c3f1/1616322907297/Screenshot%252B2021-03-21%252B09.59.16.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON - In popular culture of the time, black men are often viewed as savages, or even monkeys, with huge sexual appetites. During the trials, Davidson is repeatedly identified as “the man of colour,” as if that were his only identifying feature. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606340aead1b123f56f40008/1617117389694/CRUIKSHANK++-+NEW+UNION+CLUB+.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60571412eba5de42aa812897/1616319550896/Screenshot%2B2021-03-21%2B09.59.30.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON - In his defence at the Cato Street trials, Davidson describes an occasion, where he is threatened at a south London Sunday School, where he teaches before being actively involved in politics. While this incident is not reconstituted, Turtle Soup for the King illustrates the prevailing attitudes to race with stories during the principal action. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60571cf4a8460e79be660284/1616321783108/Screenshot%2B2021-03-21%2B11.12.15.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON - A man of privileged birth and education, Davidson tries to distance himself from popular preconceptions, which may influence the all-white members of the court and jury. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60657a1b94265d017ca5e933/1617263195102/robert+wedderburn.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60657a3bcb5eb87438a446fe/1617263183899/WEDDERBURN+TRIAL+COVER.png WILLIAM DAVIDSON https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6040da36e3b52c4f1b908597/1615032282088/blunderbuss.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON - Davidson agrees to be tried simultaneously with Tidd. Theirs is the third trial, following Thistlewood (who is also tried for murder) and Ings. BLUNDERBUSS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/604371e4159ecb2375c58e29/1615032885984/birnie+to+hobhouse+re+blunderbuss.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON - Richard Birnie, Police Magistrate, writes to Sidmouth’s Under-Secretary at the Home Office, presumably 24th February, 1820 Bow Street, 8pm Thursday Dear Sir, It is a curious fact that Davidson (the man of colour) had thirty shillings on Tuesday from the Mendicity Society under the pretence of redeeming his working tools which were pawned, and yesterday morning he redeemed a blunderbuss, which he had pawned at the shop of Alders Pawnbrokers on Berwick Street. We found a Blunderbuss in Cato Street in the hands of the man who attacked Mr Fitzclarence. Yours most faithfully, Richard Birnie H Hobhouse Esq Image and transcript courtesy National Archive, Kew https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603fa0b42da34e177f37e63a/1614782884951/TRIAL+BLUNDERBUSS.png WILLIAM DAVIDSON “George Edwards bought the gun, passed it to me for cleaning and said I could return the money, when the item was sold. Unfortunately, it failed at auction, and he advised me to wait until New Year when the firearms market generally improves.” We owe Mr Edwards five pounds?” asked Sarah in horror, “and the only means of repaying it is a useless old gun!” “It’s not useless! Did you not make a delicious pie on Sunday?” “You shot those pigeons with a blunderbuss?” Turtle Soup for the King, 23rd December, 1819 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603fa0e7e89933795e5f23d5/1614783252149/GOLDSWORTHY.png WILLIAM DAVIDSON “He was still waiting anxiously, when who should come strolling up, but his former employer from Liverpool. Mr Goldworthy said he was sorry to see an old friend in a state of evident agitation. Without the formality of a greeting, Davidson asked sharply whether his friend, Williamson had ever sailed to the Cape, because he had been cheated out of five pounds. “Calm yourself, Davidson,” said Goldworthy. “You did a good turn to a man, facing an uncertain future. A man of your talents can earn that five pounds in no time.” “I’ve not earned a farthing since August,” replied Davidson. “I’ve found plenty of work in London,” said Goldworthy, with a reassuring smile.” Turtle Soup for the King, 23rd February, 1820 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6065827666cdaa1bfb021aed/1617265308556/magna+carta.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606583113f78a562c5307253/1617265452182/davidson+sings+SCTS+WHA+HAE+FROM+COURT.png WILLIAM DAVIDSON from The Authentic History of the Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820 by G. Wilkinson. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606059a5f46c0d32750ba5bb/1616927170308/BURNS+after+ALEXANDER+NAYSMITH%2C+1800-+1820+BM+.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON - after Alexander Naysmith, 1800-1820 Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6060597c22d03f07ff3eec96/1615464483304/ROBERT+TANNAHILL+ENGRAVING+BY+S+FREEMAN+BM+.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON - Engraving by S Freeman. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606584d61cead06ac9edeec6/1617265921507/deacon+brodie+george+smith+by+john+kay+1786+.jpg WILLIAM DAVIDSON Deacon Brodie (right) and his companion in crime, English cabinet-maker, George Smith. Courtesy British Museum Images https://www.judymeewezen.net/home daily 1.0 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603268279e66a02673b2be95/1614670268203/TURTLE+SOUP+FOR+THE+KING-COVER1+%281%29+%281%29.jpg Home - The conspiracy of 1820 as told by the participants, the spy and all their spirited wives. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603df95e8f93856874c56284/1614674474811/execution+with+st+sepulchre+church.jpg Home It is a strange way for a boy to spend his fourteenth birthday, standing alone among strangers on a church roof. Turtle Soup for the King, 1st May, 1820 Execution of the Cato Street conspirators. Source unknown https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603e42932e0a99495db4b0b6/1614693032385/chinese+soup+tureen_x.jpg Home Nothing set His Royal Highness’s heart racing faster than the anticipation of a dozen Chinese soup tureens, each brimming with turtle soup. (Turtle Soup for the King, 15th August, 1819) https://www.judymeewezen.net/theauthor daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://www.judymeewezen.net/about daily 0.75 2021-04-06 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603dfd3a58cecf40d2847458/1616332739690/CATO+STREET+cruikshanak+1820+BM.jpg WHAT AND WHO IT IS ABOUT CATO STREET George Cruikshank, 1820 Courtesy British Museum Image https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603a74334d59d16018c79a7c/1614443587946/166190001.jpg WHAT AND WHO IT IS ABOUT https://www.judymeewezen.net/readings daily 0.75 2021-04-10 https://www.judymeewezen.net/ings daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6065904c7be5f3095d410373/1617268879688/JAMES+INGS+print+by+robert+cooper+after+wivell%2C+1820+BM.jpg JAMES INGS Print by Robert Cooper after Wivell. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605493509c76c3499446bbf1/1616155553091/ings+letter+to+the+king%2C+1.png JAMES INGS From a letter by James Ings to the King, 30th April, 1820 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6050dd6fc9e1850cd326a401/1616155614033/Portsmouth+Point+ROWLANDSON+1814%2C+bm.jpg JAMES INGS Portsmouth Point, Thomas Rowlandson, 1814. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605490ce4db7513aa951acbe/1616155288684/lord+thos+erskine+by+turner+after+lawrence+1806%2C+bmi.jpg JAMES INGS Lord Thomas Erskine. Print by Charles Turner after Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1806. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605490a1ce30697777c88f7c/1616154807303/RIGHTS+OF+MAN.jfif JAMES INGS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6054908516c84434fc30d870/1616160691350/tom+paine%27s+bones+book+cover.jpg JAMES INGS Polyp’s much anticipated graphic novel, publication expected in April, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6050def91ff73a6ab7cdc753/1616168434452/Wellington+fleeing+a+Hants+hog.+publ+FORES%2C+1821+BMI+.jpg JAMES INGS The Duke of Wellington fleeing a Hampshire Hog with a triple head of three enraged county members. Published by Fores, 1821. Courtesy British Museum Images. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6051c64f4768bf1df80914e9/1616241073461/hampshire+hog.jpg JAMES INGS Hampshire hog, (source unknown) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6050dd0be60dd13c3c6c0327/1615912947005/79812001.jpg JAMES INGS The Process of the Hampshire Hogs, driven by Cobbett from Botley to St James. 1808 James Gillray. Courtesy British Museum Images. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605369c4c1a67150341baaa5/1616159729058/coach.jpg JAMES INGS - When business is bad, the historical and the fictional Ings family tries its luck in London. Frequent coaches run between London and the busy naval town of Portsmouth. It is a journey of some 80 miles, at approximately 12 miles per hour, with stops. The cost of transport is often divided between customers. The more passengers can be crammed in, the more advantageous the cost, but the more uncomfortable the journey. The cheapest seats are on top, with no cover. The poet, Keats famously undertakes the same journey in June 1819 in pouring rain, on his way to the Isle of Wight. George Scharf, The West Country Coach, 1829 source unknown https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606593b8cac8d904eaa2a858/1617269721571/Vallanceroad.png JAMES INGS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6054948fc4bbfe0f7552bb93/1616156387163/Corner+of+Fleet+Street+and+Chancery+Lane%2C+1798%2C+anon+BMI+.jpg JAMES INGS The corner of Fleet Street and Chancery Lane, 1798. Anon. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/608ab5619188f5332670a263/1619703513308/The+Tipperary%2C+240421+%282%29.jpeg JAMES INGS The Tipperary at 66, Fleet Street. Formerly the Boar’s Head, the tavern was a favourite of the London Irish community and appears more than once in Ings’s story. Author’s snapshot, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605494b3e869687b86b26324/1616155953261/ings+letter+to+the+king+2.png JAMES INGS From a letter to the King by James Ings, April 30th, 1820 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/608abd0377b7b07e0bf895f6/1619705105123/Whitefriars+Street+240421.jpeg JAMES INGS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/608ab75411bca84e05441798/1619705979642/55+Fleet+Street%2C+240421+%282%29.jpeg JAMES INGS Carlile’s print shop at 55, Fleet Street is well known to Ings. In 1819, the shop is in two halves - of which one was to make way for a tiny passageway known as Pleydell Court, Author’s snapshot, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606596b8ba8aba01edc45aa1/1617270502663/richard+carlile+bm.jpg JAMES INGS Richard Carlile, c.1825 anon. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a7b99af1f34945c7c8d6e6/1621604771581/smithfield.jpeg JAMES INGS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a7b12c9c566c58978e31dd/1621604924118/Newgate+and+Smithfield%2C+200521+%285%29.jpg JAMES INGS - Make it stand out In 1872, the small rotunda park opens on the site of Smithfield, and is embellished a year later by a statue of peace. Behind her is a view along Giltspur Street to the Old Bailey. It has become a quiet place with benches to relax - and if you’re so inclined, to feed the grateful pigeons. Author's snapshot, May, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a7b159441b54130b2949ef/1621602662859/Newgate+and+Smithfield%2C+200521+%286%29.jpeg JAMES INGS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6062e2f708ad0c31851a2849/1617093381924/gold+sovereign%2C+1818+BMI.jpg JAMES INGS - When his clamouring senses could take no more, Ings decided that the old King must choose, and he took a penny from his purse. If, when it landed, His Majesty looked up at him, he preferred him to go home and damn the consequence. If the coat of arms fell uppermost, then Ings was destined for a different destination. Hon y soit qui mal y pense. Alas poor Celia! He emptied Philbin’s last bottle and slept like a baby till dawn. Turtle Soup for the King, 29th July, 1819 George III Gold Sovereigns, Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605360cbcc892347a16d9560/1616077071065/smithfield+market+and+Barts1826%2C+publ+.+W+belch+bm.jpg JAMES INGS - A livestock market is held here from 1638 until it transferred to Caledonian Market in Islington in 1855 and Bartholomew Fair is an annual event, also until 1855, after which the site is closed as a public meeting place. Smithfield Market and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1825 Published by W Belch, Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6056ea3a8d9fe90a81949ec1/1616308806689/Cato+St+house%2C+old+sketch+7+08.05.02.png JAMES INGS - “So, you’re the butcher who would have the heads of Sidmouth and Castlereagh!” cried the giant. The trusty apron, worn by his father and his father’s father, had given him away. Turtle Soup for the King, 23rd February 1820 Sketch from An Authentic History of the Cato Street Conspiracy by G.T. Wilkinson, 1820 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6055e6a1552222411a01a87a/1616309039744/20.+Cato+Street+loft+.jpg JAMES INGS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6056eb0da8460e79be6493c5/1616309030476/cato+plaque.jpg JAMES INGS - Today, Cato Street runs parallel to Edgware Rd between Crawford Place and Harrowby Street. Both have been redeveloped by Victorians, the name, Harrowby Street a reference to the intended victims. In 1820, Crawford Place is known as John Steet and contains the Horse and Groom tavern, to which the dying policeman, Smithers is carried. After the scandal of the conspiracy, Cato Street name is renamed Horace Street, continuing the Roman theme. The original name is restored in 1937. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605364f9e8242220728c89fa/1617271517055/meat+pie.jpg JAMES INGS Customers came all the way from Winchester for Celia’s puddings and pies. Turtle Soup for the King, 1817 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6053684c956c201f744e96e2/1616079039259/JOSIE+KITCHEN+DRAFT+2+.jpg JAMES INGS “If I’m big enough for the kitchen, I’m big enough for the fair!” chanted Annie, already a champion of her rights. “After the night we’ve had, madam,” retorted Celia, as she tightened Gulliver’s harness, “you’re fit for nothing but your cot! I’d give every hair on my head for the day of idleness coming your way!” Turtle Soup for the King, 23rd April, 1819 Illustration by Jaydees, aged 13, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a7bb9843620916d2e7bfbf/1621605350946/Newgate+and+Smithfield%2C+200521+%284%29.jpg JAMES INGS - According The Manchester Observer, 5th March, 1820, James Ings writes to his family instructing them not to visit him in prison. Celia defies the request and makes her way, with their four children to London, where they stay at the Saracen’s Head in Snowhill. Author’s snapshots, May, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a7bdee789036589fae295f/1621605943521/Newgate+and+Smithfield%2C+200521+%285%29.jpeg JAMES INGS - In 1875, the building is reconstructed as Snow Hill Police Station. In 1920, suffragette (and editor of the “Workers’ Dreadnought”), Sylvia Pankhust is held here for printing seditious articles. The police move out when the City of London force is reorganized early in 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60536287f656dd4790499f44/1617271621286/Coldbath+Square+%284%29.JPG JAMES INGS Author's snapshot, 2014. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6053516915297466c8d83d45/1621605835518/COLD+BATH+FIELDS.JPG JAMES INGS Treadmill at Cold Bath Felds Prison, the Middlesex House of Correction (source unknown) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a7bee81a74bd0fe55d46a5/1621606242524/IMG_2360.jpeg JAMES INGS A small street at the corner of St Sepulchre’s Church in Newgate, Snow Hill also features in the Spa Field riots of December 1816, when an intoxicated crowd makes its way from Clerkenwell to the Tower of London https://www.judymeewezen.net/tidd daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606586063f78a562c53092a3/1617266386703/richard+tidd+bm.jpg RICHARD TIDD Print by Robert Cooper, after Wivell. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606587de89bc6452b4b1b9c4/1617267431971/42.+St+Wulfrun%27s+Church%2C+Grantham.jpg RICHARD TIDD St. Wulfrun’s Church, Grantham Source unknown https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6044abcf7023b06241a25917/1615113191999/history-of-nottingham-gaol-500-x-320-min.jpg RICHARD TIDD — none of which keeps him out of the notorious Nottingham Town Gaol, where defining life-lessons are to be learnt. Courtesy National Justice Museum, Manchester https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6044ac12a177bf755e556bcf/1615113251414/WELLINGTON+BOOTS.png RICHARD TIDD From Grantham, Richard Tidd moves to Nottingham, where in fiction, at least, he joins the shoemakers’ guild, attends a lecture by radical Geordie school-teacher, Thomas Spence and makes army boots that will survive the monsoons. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60658b127782763fd30c0e8c/1617267578570/colonel+DESPARD+AT+THE+GALLOWS+1804+.jpg RICHARD TIDD Alexander Hogg, 1804. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/608ab0ef36d21d2b32c30ecb/1619702022111/Leigh+Place%2C+Brooke%27s+Mkt.jpg RICHARD TIDD - HOLE IN THE WALL PASSAGE, BROOKE’S MARKET HOLBORN The Tidd family lived in a cramped apartment in a small alleyway between Baldwin’s Gardens and Dorrington Street in Holborn, now in the London Borough of Camden. Author's snapshot, April, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6043aad9a39cab1547d1cf5d/1615047423669/26.+HOLBORN+Hole-In-the-Wall-+passage+Bombed+++%281%29.jpg RICHARD TIDD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/608aaf4ca90f2671fa2a9504/1619701648925/Leigh+Place%2C+Brooke%27s+Mkt.jpeg RICHARD TIDD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6043aa7915c3640480686cf4/1615047302847/25a+HOLBORN+Brooke%27s+Market+with+Hole+in+the+Wall+Passage%2C+now+Leigh+Place+%281%29.JPG RICHARD TIDD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a79838e780cb5f5e6c63cd/1621596237816/Newgate+and+Smithfield%2C+200521+%281%29.jpg RICHARD TIDD The Tidds lived in what was probably a wooden structure amongst many others on several floors of this alleyway, which still has a view to Brooke’s Market. “Hole in the Wall Passage” is listed in 1929 rate books, but not for 1955, by which time it had been rebuilt and renamed. Author's snapshot, May 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6046429dd30212628665ba2b/1615539426512/704407001.jpg RICHARD TIDD The Crown and Anchor, Strand Entrance, 1851. J Findlay. Courtesy British Museum Images The Crown and Anchor stood opposite St Clement the Dane Church, the Strand on a site now dominated by King’s College, London. About five minute’s westward walk from the Black Lion, its ballroom on the first floor accommodates up to 2,500 people. It is a popular meeting place, especially for radicals, including the London Corresponding Society (of which Edward Despard - and possibly also Tidd are members). Charles James Fox famously celebrates his fiftieth birthday here. It is the setting for a significant meeting of London’s tavern radicals in July 1819. Later, William Davidson visits the Crown and Anchor for entirely different purposes, in fiction, as in life. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60464278bb38e05ac5779de8/1615217279573/Black%2BLion%2BWhitefriars%2B%2528Water%2BLane%2529%2B.jpg RICHARD TIDD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6043a632159ecb2375c815bb/1615220975237/TRENT+AND+MERSEY+CANAL+PHOTO.jpg RICHARD TIDD Right canal, wrong century. I’d say this photograph (source unknown) is about 1920. For relevance to the matter in hand, I refer you to chapter thirteen of Turtle Soup for the King: “I don’t care if you’re a pair of runaway bishops,” said the captain. “Just pay your way and leave me in peace.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6043a61424307b5eaaec1f05/1615220647362/Trent_and_Mersey_Canal_plan.png RICHARD TIDD Tidd is one of the two conspirators who - in the author’s imagination - make an unexpected journey with unexpected consequences - all with good narrative purpose. Perceptive readers will know what to look for on this map. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60465f75ad1d542e1ccfb855/1615460162958/tidd%27s+evidence.png RICHARD TIDD from Richard Tidd’s testimony https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60465ebec561056d6fa1514d/1615224523424/tidd%27s+arrest+not+edited+.png RICHARD TIDD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/604744161effce4c2a2d1baf/1615283241058/appeal+for+support+for+the+wives+from+wilkinson+.png RICHARD TIDD https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6054c420340ad61fab3fe7b7/1616167985999/1818-uniforms-londonlettercarrier.jpg RICHARD TIDD “Ma! The letter carrier is here, and he’ll only talk to you!” called Marjorie from half way up the stairs. Eliza Tidd, scraping taters in the kitchen, was astounded. She had never received a letter in her life. “Get away with your nonsense!” she said. “Suit yourself, ma” said the cheeky lass, grimacing and dodging the wallop as she hurried back to her friends. Turtle Soup for the King, 11th August, 1819 His Majesty’s Letter Carrier, 1818. Source unknown https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60658d81f44afb581f5302c9/1617268104936/BUNYAN%2BREADS%2BTO%2BHIS%2BWIFE%252C%2BTITLE%2BPAGE%252C%2BWM%2BSTRANG%252C%2B1894.jpg RICHARD TIDD John Bunyan’s Wife reads the Bible to him. John C Nimmo / William Strang, 1884, Courtesy British Museum Images https://www.judymeewezen.net/edwards daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605f1f8c5689961a0423b56f/1617272416578/edwards.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS from Aylmer, Memoir of George Edwards, 1820 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605f1dd5e853a96bfdb05051/1616846302578/edwards.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6065a1884acb611c5e382224/1617273475136/sewell%2Bafter%2Bcoade%2B1786%2Bbmi.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS Sewell after Coade, 1786. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60659f0d35c28d6b1c25f56d/1617272886796/venus+with+dove%2C+ralph+wedgwood+.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS Venus with Dove. Ralph Wedgwood https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605a14a812c4521db00b27b0/1616517197504/whitbreads+chiswell+st+bmi.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS Inner Court of Whitbread's Brewery, Chiswell Street. 1791 after George Gerrard. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605a14e3155f31420ddabf53/1616517379846/fleet+makt+bmi.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS Fleet Market about 1830 by Thomas Berber after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c2901dc168466df40377c/1616652567095/Fleet+St.+St+Pauls+010907.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS Fleet Street, with all its courts, alleys and taverns is a significant location for the conspirators, especially George Edwards. Author's snapshot 2007 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c29e484f6002491a0f2b7/1616657121857/56-55+Fleet+St.+010907.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS - Business premises at 55, Fleet Street . in 1819, Carlile’s print-works occupy one half, the window boasting a provocative bust of Thomas Paine, sculpted by George Edwards. In the other half, cheesemonger, Thomas Scarlett’s, like many businesses in post-war Britain, has been forced to close. Author's snapshot, 2014 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/608abc75db7e9037b0dcb9e4/1619705001911/Fetter+LANE%2C+240421.jpeg GEORGE EDWARDS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c487581d1e6089265f3f0/1616660609008/j-court-0-paul-freeney.png GEORGE EDWARDS - Directly opposite 55, Fleet Street is Johnson’s Court, which contains Dr Samuel Johnson’s house, now a popular museum. The entrance and the court itself are part of the historical action, imaginatively reconstructed in Turtle Soup for the King. Photograph Paul Feeney, 2011 (source unknown) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c740fe6353c33a343c6c5/1616671780789/Bow+street+police+station+and+new+court+house+.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS “There will be times, Mr Henry Ward,” said Stafford, “when you will wish that bullet had went through your skull instead of a clockmaker’s window.” George Edwards felt a crack on his cheek bone. Turtle Soup for the King, 30th April 1819 Bow Street Police Station and New Court House source unknown https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605daa14dc31bf6adf4abd75/1616927926458/168074001.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS Poor John Bull, the free-born Englishman, deprived of his seven senses by the six new acts. George Cruikshank, 1819. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c7d05c33c0374d29509c0/1616675803036/1613024384.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS - Viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary. After Stephen Catterson Smith, c.1820-1835 histlewood https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c85e21c30f14d1b4e403d/1616751403099/177523001.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS Smoak Jack the Alarmist Extinguishes the Second Fire of London. George Cruikshank, 1819. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/615abfd64aa4c84311c8d2c4/1633337384812/Grosv+mews+north%2C+200621+%285%29.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS - In 2021, Grosvenor Gardens Mews North is off Ebury Street, Belgravia, a few minutes’ walk from Victoria Station. In 2021, properties command around £3 million and are used for both residential and commercial purposes. Even in 1819/20 it is a considerable improvement on Cripplegate, where few, if any buildings of that time have survived. Entrance to Grosvenor Gardens Mews north, formerly Ranelagh Place, Author’s snapshot, June, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/615abe1f0b4f1f126b9305d6/1633336910078/Grosv+mews+north%2C+200621+%282%29.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS - With his increased earnings, Edwards leases a home on Ranelagh Place in peaceful Pimlico. MAP REFERENCES: Horewood Regency A—Z: p.22 Ad Contemporary London A-Z: p203 4K In 1819, Ranelagh Place leads from Ranelagh Street and backs on to a market garden. Damage from a high explosive bomb during World War Two led to some rebuilding in the original style. Ranelagh Place, now Grosvenor Gardens Mews North. Author's snapshot, June 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c968c1494c9763fba4244/1616680599513/correspondence%2Bwood%2B-sidmouth%2Bre%2Bedwards%252C%2Bwilkie%2B%25282%2529.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c9461b2ea6e522ac7a888/1616680041267/correspondence%2Bwood%2B-sidmouth%2Bre%2Bedwards%252C%2Bwilkie%2B%25281%2529.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605c9712a50e1e25a0e201f5/1616680732661/indictement+George-Edwards-spy.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605ca308d8d5727786fa3f20/1616928110641/110893001.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS The Queen and Alderman Wood, riding asses, lead a procession through the city. Satirical print,Theodore Lane, 1821.Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605cb2d0e73cdd0b3f202d20/1616688695957/749303001.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS - A little earlier, a Mary Edwards is in poor relief records for 1788 in the ward of Bridge Within, Parish of St Margaret, New Fish Street (now Fish Street Hill). I use the information to build the character of Mrs G and her sons, then aged 7 and 2. This view of the Monument to the great fire of London looks towards St, Magnus the Martyr Church. Beyond is London Bridge, beside which some of the poorest Londoners live precariously in wooden houses on the Thames riverbank. The environment continues to haunt the fictional George Edwards, bringing depth to his character and consequences that are tragic for some. View of the Monument, Robert Sayer 1760-80 Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605cb0fe32521f12c4f4f30c/1616687947581/hOGARTH+GIN+LANE+1751+BMI+.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS - On the day of Robespierre’s escape from the Hotel de Ville, reports arrived at Mrs G’s Gin Palace that Admiral Nelson had lost an eye. Turtle Soup for the King, 28th July 1794 Reports suggest that George Edwards’s mother is addicted to alcohol and that George and his younger brother, William spend some of their childhood with their father in Bristol. Mrs G is born, presumably, after Hogarth’s iconic image, but London’s poor are still in the grip of the demon gin. In Turtle Soup for the King, Mrs G, as she is known (presumed to be Gordon) runs an early gin palace on Old Street and has little time left for two young sons. (Tantalisingly the Gordon’s gin distillery is quite close, but the author resisted inventing a connection.) William Hogarth, Gin Lane, 1751. Courtesy British Museum Images. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605ccc5d7d319a06e1eade91/1616694385267/catherine+stephens%2C+bmi+%282%29.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605ccc3f46d24b4abd9e7851/1616694350962/catherine+stephens%2C+bmi+%281%29.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605df538453e7b61932998d4/1617274518566/Thos+Baines+Algoa+Bay+castle+of+good+hope%2C+william+fehr+collection.JPG GEORGE EDWARDS Settlers arriving at Algoa Bay, 1820 by Thomas Baines Courtesy The Castle of Good Hope Museum, Cape Town. William Fehr Collection. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605ef372d0939c02bc0d0852/1616941637713/Thomas_Pringle.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS Thomas Pringle, Edward Francis Finden. Courtesy National Library of South Africa, Cape Town https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605df740fd979647f2026a01/1616770911478/yellow+tulp.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS - Among the unexpected challenges facing settlers in the Cape Colony is the innocent-looking yellow tulp, which despite its name has nothing to do with Dutch tulips Yellow tulp or Cape Tulip (Moraea pallida) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/605df5b47c285f79086c0673/1616770949128/Cape+Town+2010+stadium%2C+June+09.jpg GEORGE EDWARDS - George Edwards spends the final part of his life - in fact and fiction - in light of the majestic Table Mountain at Green Point, where he works as a modeller. He is familiar with the the construction of the first lighthouse of the African continent, which opens at Green Point in 1824. Now a vibrant, creative suburb of Cape Town, Green Point is made famous by a football stadium, rebuilt for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. https://www.judymeewezen.net/endorsements daily 0.75 2021-04-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6065af908a047a6ad3ce9fd9/1617716055644/Table+Mountain+sunset+2.JPG ENDORSEMENTS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603931261f0229612271ddfd/1617554710532/green%2Bspider.jpg ENDORSEMENTS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6039315ef6ddd013824822ca/1617554848456/view+and+P+Reiner+.jpg ENDORSEMENTS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6069e8de5e4fca448601f96d/1617554832974/IMG-9107.jpg ENDORSEMENTS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/606348c53dd26b5b0c89ed3e/1617555583057/CAP+OF+LIBERTY+PETERLOO.JPG ENDORSEMENTS Courtesy The Peterloo Memorial Campaign https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60391dbdf614e2625d70f837/1617109176513/Blake+London+BM.JPG ENDORSEMENTS - William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1793 Courtesy British Museum Images https://www.judymeewezen.net/turtle-soup daily 0.75 2021-03-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60533c239317615851df9d22/1616067638294/George+IV++soup+tureen.jpg TURTLE SOUP - If it’s not over-salted, Denbigh, let us start with the turtle. Turtle Soup for the King , 19th July, 1821 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603e0e29072f451f2ed69148/1614679605468/Turtle-Tale-RR-Jr-June-July-2017.jpg TURTLE SOUP https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603e31b1206c454bb14ad496/1617109675658/ALICE+AND+mock+turtle+.png TURTLE SOUP - Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, "Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?" "No," said Alice. "I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is. " "It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from," said the Queen. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1865 Alice and the Mock Turtle. Sir John Tenniel, 1865 https://www.judymeewezen.net/process daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/603a7bb3f34f6a4fbea4cc34/1617712111827/2013-01-03%2B13.49.22.jpg PROCESS Giant turtle, Kisumu, Kenya. Author's snapshot, 2015 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6050d4662fac4b036f1383a9/1615910111409/KING+GEORGE+IV+print+by+THOS+hodges+after+HENRY+raeburn%2C+1820+bm.jpg PROCESS - The government cannot depend on the king’s automatic support, having denied him the financial help he requested and failed to support his attempts to divorce his wife and cousin, Caroline of Brunswick. Insights into the King’s thinking are drawn in part from the diaries of the Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Department, Mr Henry Hobhouse, who often attends relatively informal meetings between His Majesty and the Home Secretary, Lord Sidmouth. The boy’s heart skips a beat as he contemplates clemency. The letter he helped pa compose, the letter about sobriety and loyalty and love for his country. Perhaps after all, the king has seen it, has sat on his golden throne and commanded the immediate release of John Thomas Brunt. Hallelujah! Turtle Soup for the King, 1st May, 1820 King George IV. Thomas Hedges after Henry Raeburn, 1821 Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6048fa39f5b5551e8ae3d601/1616425833231/11.+Wilkinson+source%2C+title+page.png PROCESS There is huge public interest in the Cato Street trials of April 1820 and the hangings on 1st May. Reports quickly appear in print. To maximise sales, they are often biased and sensationalised. George Theodore Wilkinson’s “authentic history” is widely available on-line - and unless otherwise specified - is used in this website. Wilkinson draws heavily on the official Old Bailey Court Proceedings, which are also accessible on-line. I began work with little background knowledge, except for the apparent plight of a few families. Many of my notes and photocopies are unavailable for pandemic reasons as I create this website in a remote alpine village. The British Library, the National Archive at Kew, the London Metropolitan and Westminster Archives and others, mentioned in the novel’s appendix, all provided important information, to which the novel keeps as closely as possible, although its first duties are to entertain, educate and perhaps reach the heart of the matter. https://www.judymeewezen.net/brunt daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60658e2d7be5f3095d40e4fe/1617268396193/JOHN+THOMAS+BRUNT+print+by+robert+cooper+after+wivell%2C+1820.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Print by Robert Cooper after Wivell. Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/604756db0b8656441b669748/1615377997615/62685001.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Twenty minutes later, as Walter Brunt reached for the strap, he promised that it gave no grain of pleasure to acknowledge his only son as a fool, whose recklessness was as responsible as any blasted Frenchie for depriving the family of income Turtle Soup for the King, 14th July, 1789 Soho Tailor, 1789 J. Cooke after Samuel Collings Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6047561944931a7a80c0e851/1617268562000/777653001.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT - Master Brunt crossed Oxford Street to the market, but nobody had an errand for a drowned rat with a limp, and only asked what breed of mischief had caused all that blood and the damage to his breeches. Turtle Soup for the King, 14th July, 1789 Oxford Market, Oxford Street, east of Great Portland St., Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1850 Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6049e4d3ec446c62bceb7ec5/1615455459390/procession+from+ST+giles+to+BILLINGSGATE+.JPG JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Thomas Rowlandson, 1810 Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60475df6ce1bb26528f99e1d/1615456744299/GORUMARA+PARK%2C+WEST+BENGAL.jfif JOHN THOMAS BRUNT A jungle in present-day Tamil Nadu https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60475dda7e18601ceffe7e0e/1615456776821/Fort_-_Vandavasi.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT The Fort at Vandavasi today https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60489c26d172c7062e914d70/1615456666436/Adams+on+Brunt+in+france+.png JOHN THOMAS BRUNT - Details of Brunt’s engagement in France are patchy. He serves - reportedly under the name of Thomas Morton – in (at least) Paris and Cambrai ( then Cambray) the Duke of Wellington’s HQ during the British Army Occupation of France, 1815-1818. A fellow shoemaker in France and member of the Royal Horse Guards Regiment turns against Brunt to save himself. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60489dd3c053225836929397/1615454535237/LOUIS+XVIII+1814+JDE+Canu%2C+BMI++%281%29.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT King Louis XVIII, 1814, J.D.E. Canu Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60489dab039aad71209cea01/1615454561695/DUKE+OF+WELLINGTON+SIR+GEORGE+HAYTER%2C+1820+BMI+.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT The Duke of Wellington, 1820, Sir George Hayter Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60489d906214e15479e7576b/1615454531325/Nap+BON+1815+WILLIAM+DICKINSON+AFTER+francous+GERARD+bmi+.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815, William Dickinson after Baron François Gérard Courtesy British Museum Images https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/608ab261733f696f538a1cdc/1621596792754/Fox+court%2C+2.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Today, Fox Court is an office complex on the winding, tree-lined Gray’s Inn Road (formerly known as Gray’s Inn Lane). Author’s snapshot, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6048e17a13d9b374d5fa07b3/1621596755415/Brooke%2527s%2BMarket.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Brooke’s Market. Fox Court had an entrance off right. Hole in the Wall Passage was centre left. Author’s snapshot, 2015 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60479eb13472c263169ca51e/1615384873344/846862001+%281%29.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT - Harry Brunt was saddened, of course, by Ringo’s passing, but supposed it would be easy to find a younger, prettier, even more musical canary on Leather Lane any day. Turtle Soup for the King, 30th April, 1819. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6048e010442e6d2d92622743/1615454320550/Brooke%27s+Market+EC1+%284%29.JPG JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Leather Lane is hidden from the old Brooke’s Market by this later building. Author’s snapshot, 2015 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6048daf958e6671962d7dc8b/1615454310011/Baldwin+Gardens+Leather+Lane.JPG JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Leather Lane Market. Baldwin’s Gardens has an entrance to Hole in the Wall Passage, home of the Tidd family (now Leigh Place). Author’s snapshot 2015. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6048cc386f077b1eb500f84a/1615456308371/shoemakersworkshop.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a79d4eb82d4c08541bf071/1621597849739/Newgate+and+Smithfield%2C+200521+%282%29.jpeg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT - The Shard, just in sight, is a 21st century phenomenon. Author's snapshots, May, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6049df9047e07f188444be91/1621597197938/Screenshot%252B2021-03-04%252B17.28.05.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a79c8c7e461d4b096030c3/1621597380864/Newgate+and+Smithfield%2C+200521+%283%29.jpeg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT - The Old Bailey and the entire area behind the gallows was rebuilt by Victorians. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60a79aea442557630dcac442/1621597197934/Newgate+and+Smithfield%2C+200521+%281%29.jpeg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT St. Sepulchre’s Church today, as seen from the approximate site of the gallows. Author’s snapshot, May, 2021 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6047976f44931a7a80c602ed/1617118222904/799115001+%281%29.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT St Luke’s Hospital, Old Street Road by J. Gough after the 1814 drawing by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Courtesy British Museum Images. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60479b3db3cdf87732691e64/1615307588108/canary.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT - There is little information about Mary Brunt (Molly in the novel). She is reported as “a respectable woman” with the maiden name Welch. She spends time at St Luke’s asylum after receiving news that her husband and older son have been shot by firing squad in France. She has relatives in Derby, including an older son, and the novel invents a Welch cousin in London. Molly is stronger than she imagines. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6048ef75c193ce26c7066cc7/1615393491459/mutter+courage+weigel.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT Helene Weigel in Mother Courage and her Children, written and directed by Bertolt Brecht in 1948. One of the greatest anti-war plays of all time and a significant inspiration for Turtle Soup for the King. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/60479fb1b09c373fdc62782f/1615448031631/MAXI-HERCULES+PIC+.jpg JOHN THOMAS BRUNT https://www.judymeewezen.net/hunt daily 0.75 2021-10-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600d5aba3c156d341b5464bc/t/6061eccbae852475cf875550/1617034702102/HENRY+HUNT+BM+cruikshank+etching+1816+bm+.jpg HENRY HUNT Henry Hunt by George Cruikshank, 1816. 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