The mob liberates prisoners from the local…
July 1791 CE
Thomas Woodbridge, the Keeper of the Prison, deputizes several hundred people to help him quell the mob, but many of these join in with the rioters themselves.
The crowd destroys John Ryland's home, Baskerville House, and drinks the supplies of liquor that they find in the cellar.
When the newly appointed constables arrive on the scene, the mob attacks and disarms them.
One man is killed.
The local magistrates and law enforcement, such as it is, does nothing further to restrain the mob and will not read the Riot Act until the military arrives on July 17.
Other rioters burn down banker John Taylor's home at Bordesley Park.
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