The homes of Joseph Jukes, John Coates,…
July 1791 CE
The Baptist Meeting at Kings Heath, another Dissenting chapel, is also destroyed.
William Russell and William Hutton try to defend their homes, but to no avail—the men they have hired refused to fight the mob.
When the rioters arrived at John Taylor's other house at Moseley, Moseley Hall, they carefully move all of the furniture and belongings of its current occupant, the frail Dowager Lady Carhampton, a relative of George III, out of the house before they burn it: they are specifically targeting those who disagree with the king's policies and who, in not conforming to the Church of England, resist state control.
The homes of George Russell, a Justice of the Peace, Samuel Blyth, one of the ministers of New Meeting, Thomas Lee, and a Mr. Westley all come under attack on the 15th and 16th.
The manufacturer, Quaker, and member of the Lunar Society Samuel Galton only saves his own home by bribing the rioters with ale and money.
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