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	Gordon riots - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Gordon riots were a Protestant religious uprising in London against the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1778, which was intended to lessen the official discrimination against the Roman Catholics in England at the time.
		Led by Lord George Gordon, a crowd variously estimated at 40,000 to 60,000 marched on the Houses of Parliament demanding the repeal of the legislation on June 2 1780.
		The demonstration quickly deteriorated into a riot, and severe destruction was inflicted on Catholic churches and homes, including the chapels on the grounds of several embassies, as well as the Bank of England, Newgate Prison, Fleet Prison, and the house of the Lord Chief Justice, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Gordon_Riots (321 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gordon riots
		Gordon called a meeting of the Protest Association on May 29, 1780 called for a march on the House of Commons to deliver a petition demanding the repeal of the Roman Catholic Relief Act the following week.
		Gordon, petition in hand, and wearing the blue cockade in his hat, the symbol of the Protestant Association, entered the Lower House and presented the petition.
		Riots in the United Kingdom St Pauls Cathedral The United Kingdom is a traditionally Christian state, with two of the four home nations having official faiths: Anglicanism, in the form of the Church of England, is the established church in England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gordon-riots (1120 words)

	Gordon riots
		The Gordon riots were a Protestant religious uprising against the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1778[?], which was intended to emancipate the many Roman Catholics in England at the time.
		The demonstration quickly deteriorated into a riot, and severe destruction was inflicted on Catholic buildings as well as the Bank of England, Newgate Prison and Fleet Prison[?].
		Gordon was arrested and charged with high treason but was found not guilty.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/go/Gordon_riots.html (143 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gordon Riots
		This agitation, so called from the head and spirit of the movement, Lord George Gordon, convulsed the metropolis of England from 2 June till 9 June, 1780.
		The president of both Scottish and English Associations was Lord George Gordon third son of the third Duke of Gordon, the Protestant head of the house.
		The riots are also mentioned by all historians and memoir writers of the period.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06649c.htm (1489 words)

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		The Bristol Bridge Riot and From: The Journal of Its Antecedents: Eighteenth-Century British Studies Perception of the Crowd by Philip D. Jones The Bristol Bridge Riot of 1793 was one of the most serious riots, in terms of killed and injured, to occur in Britain during the last half of the eighteenth century.
		It was neither a turnpike riot transferred to an urban setting, nor was it the expression of long-held social grievances.
		The riot of 1793 was different from previous Bristol riots in that officials denounced Bristol citizens, motivated by revolutionary zeal, as the source of their trouble and, in contrast to past practice, the officials were determined to prevent disorder with all the force required.
	www.bradley.edu /academics/las/civ/bristol (7650 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Gordon Riots.
		Riots in 1780, headed by Lord George Gordon, to compel the House of Commons to repeal the bill passed in 1778 for the relief of Roman Catholics.
		Gordon was undoubtedly of unsound mind, and he died in 1793, a proselyte to Judaism.
		Dickens has given a very vivid description of the Gordon riots in Barnaby Rudge.
	www.bartleby.com /81/7425.html (97 words)

	The Gordon Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Gordon Riots of June 1780 - named after the Scottish peer Lord John Gordon, leader of the Protestant Association, a mass organisation that demanded the repeal of the Relief of Roman Catholics Act of 1778 - had, because of its violence and destructiveness - a deep impact on the contemporaries.
		According to Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (1841), the riots were the outcome of the 'insane' impulses in the yet undomesticated British social body.
		Thomas Erskine, Lord Gordon's counsel for the defence, in 1781 accused the the government of the "attempt, without evidence, to infect your [the jurors'] imaginations".
	www.uni-erfurt.de /eestudies/eese/artic23/boeker/abstract.html (352 words)

	The Gordon Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Led by Lord George Gordon, an MP and Protestant agitator, the marchers aimed to submit a petition objecting to the end of religious discrimination against Catholics.
		George Gordon was arrested on a charge of high treason but was acquitted thanks to the brilliant defence of his lawyer.
		It is unnecessary to say, that those shameful tumults, while they reflect indelible disgrace upon the time in which they occurred, and all who had act or part in them, teach a good lesson.
	www.hiddenlondon.com /gordon_riots.htm (303 words)

	lord george gordon
		Irish immigrants may well have been attracted by the name – an ironic twist since it was called Knockfergus by English soldiers of Elizabeth I’s army, returning in the 1580s after their invasion of Gaelic Ireland.
		Riots in Glasgow and Edinburgh persuaded the Government not to extend the law to Scotland, but in London there was strong anti-Catholic feeling too.
		The MP was acquitted and carried on his maverick way, converting to Judaism before being imprisoned in 1787 for a libel on Marie Antoinette.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /Gordon%20Riots.htm (739 words)

	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Religion & Religious Topics: G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The riots began when concessions to Roman Catholics were discussed in Parliament which would remove penalties imposed on Catholics under the Catholic Relief Act [1778].
		The riots were organised by Lord George Gordon [1751-1793], who led a mob and marched on the Houses of Parliament to present a petition against the concessions.
		Gordon was charged with treason but was acquitted.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Gordon Riots
		Gordon Riots, violent Protestant uprising in London, England, on June 2, 1780.
		Gordon, Lord George (1751-93), British religious agitator, born in London, and educated at Eton College.
		Supported by the powerful London merchant class and others who rallied to the slogan “Wilkes and Liberty!” he reached a peak of popularity, becoming...
	encarta.msn.com /Gordon_Riots.html (125 words)

	BBC - History - Gordon Riots 1780 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In June 1780, violent anti-Catholic riots broke out in London as Lord George Gordon marched on parliament to present a petition requesting the repeal of the Relief Act and a return to Catholic repression.
		Gordon was tried for high treason but acquitted.
		The Lord Mayor of London was fined £1,000 for negligence of his duties.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/geo_gordon_riots.shtml (197 words)

	Glossary in Support of Blue Pete's History Pages of Nova Scotia.
		At the age of 23, doubtlessly occupying a family seat, Lord Gordon was to become a Member of Parliament.
		A riot broke out which was to last five days during which time Catholic chapels and private homes were destroyed.
		Lord Gordon himself was tried for high treason, but he was to have a famous champion for a lawyer, Erskine, and, Gordon was acquitted.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/Gloss/Glossary.htm (2125 words)

	Gordon riots on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		GORDON RIOTS [Gordon riots] see Gordon, Lord George.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-G1ordonri.asp (353 words)

	Gordon Riots
		Inside, a surreal tableau: hovering near Lord George Gordon, the nominal instigator of this unrest, are several terrified MPs who, fingers trembling on the hilts of their swords, threaten to run Sir George through should the chaos outside somehow tumble into the venerable halls.
		A few dozens of miles to the west in Bath, a young woman is delivered of her first child--a boy named after his father, William Hone.
		The Gordon Riots, as an amused Hone would remember in his later years, offered an entirely fitting backdrop for his introduction into the world.
	www.uab.edu /english/hone/biograph/fragments/gordon.htm (472 words)

	The Gordon Riots, June 1780 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lord George Gordon, a powerful and extreme Protestant, set up the Protestant Association in 1780, demanding the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act.
		He spread fears of "Popery" and royal absolutism; he suggested that Roman Catholics in the British army, especially the Irish, might join forces with their French and Spanish co-religionists and attack England.
		It took a week for the government to collect enough militia and troops to quash the riots.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/riots/gordon.html (380 words)

	Gordon Riots -> Susan Burney Project Pilot -> Humanities Research Centre -> University of Nottingham
		Susan Burney's horror at witnessing the marauding mob during the Gordon Riots is described in vivid detail in this excerpt (the original entry continues for several more pages).
		a face of Alarm and told me there was terrible rioting about the streets, and that the Mob were breaking several windows in Queen street, and threatning to set fire to some of the Houses because they were inhabited by Roman Catholics- The Eveg.
		[1] Lord George Gordon (1751-93), who was at the head of opposition to the Catholic Relief Act.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /hrc/projects/burney/letters/gordon.phtml (2084 words)

	Read about Gordon riots at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Gordon riots and learn about Gordon riots here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		Lord George Gordon, a crowd variously estimated at 40,000 to 60,000 marched on the Houses of Parliament demanding the repeal of the legislation on June 2,
		The demonstration quickly deteriorated into a riot, and severe destruction was inflicted on Catholic churches and homes, including the chapels on the grounds of several embassies, as well as the
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Gordon_Riots (177 words)

	Lord George Gordon -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		English lord and instigator of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots in London (1780).
		The third and youngest son of the 3rd Duke of Gordon, he was educated at Eton and entered the British navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant in 1772.
		His handsome face, riotous living and many love affairs, and a tragic death at the age of 36 made him a romantic, fascinating figure to both men and women of the time.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037418 (587 words)

	Sancho Describes the Gordon Riots
		The riots began with Lord George Gordon's protest against an act for a small measure of toleration for Catholics, an act deeply resented by many in Protestant England.
		Sancho wrote several eye-witness accounts of the riots in letters to John Spink.
		Lord G[eorge] G[ordon] has this moment announced to my Lords the mob - that the act shall be repealed this evening: - upon this, they gave a hundred cheers - took the horses from his hackney - coach - and rolled him full jollily away: - they are huzzaing now ready to crack their throats
	www.brycchancarey.com /sancho/letter2.htm (857 words)

	The Gordon Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		GTr2 = The Trial of Lord George Gordon for High Treason at the Bar of the Court of King's Bench, On Monday, February 5th, 1781.
		Holcroft, Richard (1780) A Plain and Succint Narrative of the Late Riots and Disturbances in the Cities of London and Westminter [...], third edition, corrected [...] by William Vincent.
		Kampmann, Christoph (2001) 'Emancipation and Violence: On the Interpretation of the Anti-Jewish Riots in the German Vormärz'.
	www.uni-erfurt.de /eestudies/eese/artic23/boeker/biblio.html (904 words)

	Observer \| Gordon Riots
		However, all but about three of them were entirely justified and though Ramsay is clearly a bully (and I'll bet he's considerably worse in his own kitchens, away from the cameras), I would go so far as to say that, in this case, he was rather too kind.
		Gordon Ramsay saving the residents of Silsden from the horror of Bonapartes was, frankly, a public service; that it was also great telly made for an Embarrassment of Richness [sic], which, come to think of it, would make a lovely name for a trifle.
		Indeed, Dad is posher than a thin scraping of Gentleman's Relish on a Carr's Table Water biscuit, which leads one to assume that Henry has acquired maverick diction as some sort of kick-ass statement, or possibly he's just the same sort of 'arse' that Gordon Ramsay threatens to ram cabbage up.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4914843-102281,00.html (905 words)

	spitalfields, brick lane, brick lane bomb, huguenots in london, banglatown, gordon riots
		Lord George Gordon stoked up Protestant panic about the influence of Rome to stoke up the Gordon Riots in 1780.
		On June 2, 1780, mobs burned Roman Catholic chapels in Spitalfields and Gordon's motley crew made for Downing Street.
		Gordon was arrested for treason and saw out his years in prison...
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /brick%20lane.htm (949 words)

	BOPCRIS Library of Congress Subject Heading (18th Century) for Gordon Riots, 1780
		To enquire into the causes of the riot in the lobby and avenues to the House on 2 June
		Papers relating to the riots: Proceedings of the courts of Aldermen and Common Council
		Papers relating to the riots: Letters between the Lord President and the Lord Mayor (Nos.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /bop1700/browse/683.html (162 words)

	Gordon Riots
		On 2nd July, 1780, Gordon led a crowd of 50,000 people to the House of Commons to present a petition for the repeal of the 1778 Roman Catholic Relief Act, that had removed certain disabilities.
		This demonstration turned into a riot and for the next five days many Catholic chapels and private houses were destroyed.
		It is estimated that over £180,000 worth of property was destroyed during the Gordon Riots.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /LONgordon.htm (209 words)

	Georgian London - history
		The riots began as a march through the streets of London to protest the Catholic Relief Act, which granted basic rights to Catholics.
		The marchers, under the vociferous leadership of Lord George Gordon, let their religious prejudice boil over into a week of looting and murder.
		The Gordon Riots terrified the authorities and brought repressive measures against any form of protest or reform-minded writing.
	www.britainexpress.com /London/georgian-london.htm (714 words)

	Psychology Today: Anatomy of a riot - new research on sports riots by Gordon Russell and Anu Mustonen - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Studies show that they are mostly young single men on the margins of society, less educated, often unemployed and usually anti-social.
		On questioning 127 men at a hockey game about how they would react if a riot broke out, we found that 61% would look on, while only 2% would join in.
		During a riot, police are often unable to distinguish between those resolved to help them and those intent on hindering.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_n6_v31/ai_21253179 (431 words)

	Gin Riots
		In 1729 Parliament passed a Gin Act that increased the tax on the drink.
		This action was unpopular with the working-classes and in 1743 resulted in riots in London.
		The crowd ignored the magistrates reading of the Riot Act, and a great deal of damage was done.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /LONgin.htm (158 words)

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