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complaint to the Justice by Mr. Russel, desiring a meeting
with him, which he excused, as he would send his clerk; and
further told him, that if Mr. Russel did not desist, he would
give him a pretty dose at Westminster-hall. However, in a few
days afterwards he advertised for men to come, but they would
not come to his office, and therefore were put in the gangs;
that Dunster, Justice Hodgson’s clerk, having seen the de-
ponent at Billingsgate, he brought to his door no less than 3
v or 400 of these men, a great many of whom threatened they
would pull down his house, or they would do for him ; that
the deponent went to the Mansion-house to acquaint the
Lord Mayor of the danger he was in, and received for an-
swer, that he must be directed by some Magistrate in his
neighbourhood ; that on Saturday morning, the 16th of
April, the coal-heavers having put up some bills, a neigh-
bour’s servant went and pulled one down, upon which the
coal-heavers cried out, that Green’s maid had pulled down
their bills, and then they directly came running from dif-
ferent parts to his door, to the amount of 100 and upwards.
The purport, the deponent said, of these bills, was a libel
on Mr. Aiderman Beckford, and what was done was Mr.
Russel’s own doing.—The acts of violence committed by the
coal-heavers against this deponent, best appear from his own
words.
i( I asked them,” said he, “what they wanted with me?”
they cried, f they would have my life if I offered to
meddle with any of their bills;’ I said J had not meddled
with any, nor none had that belonged to me; one of
them cried, f he shall have a bill put up against his own
window;’ he took up a handful of dirt, and put it upon
the window, and put the bill upon it; another of them
laid hold of my collar, and dragged me off the step of my
door; another said, c hawl him into the river;’ said
another, ‘ we will drown him.’ I got from them, and re-
treated back into my house. After that I went to Billings-
complaint to the Justice by Mr. Russel, desiring a meeting
with him, which he excused, as he would send his clerk; and
further told him, that if Mr. Russel did not desist, he would
give him a pretty dose at Westminster-hall. However, in a few
days afterwards he advertised for men to come, but they would
not come to his office, and therefore were put in the gangs;
that Dunster, Justice Hodgson’s clerk, having seen the de-
ponent at Billingsgate, he brought to his door no less than 3
v or 400 of these men, a great many of whom threatened they
would pull down his house, or they would do for him ; that
the deponent went to the Mansion-house to acquaint the
Lord Mayor of the danger he was in, and received for an-
swer, that he must be directed by some Magistrate in his
neighbourhood ; that on Saturday morning, the 16th of
April, the coal-heavers having put up some bills, a neigh-
bour’s servant went and pulled one down, upon which the
coal-heavers cried out, that Green’s maid had pulled down
their bills, and then they directly came running from dif-
ferent parts to his door, to the amount of 100 and upwards.
The purport, the deponent said, of these bills, was a libel
on Mr. Aiderman Beckford, and what was done was Mr.
Russel’s own doing.—The acts of violence committed by the
coal-heavers against this deponent, best appear from his own
words.
i( I asked them,” said he, “what they wanted with me?”
they cried, f they would have my life if I offered to
meddle with any of their bills;’ I said J had not meddled
with any, nor none had that belonged to me; one of
them cried, f he shall have a bill put up against his own
window;’ he took up a handful of dirt, and put it upon
the window, and put the bill upon it; another of them
laid hold of my collar, and dragged me off the step of my
door; another said, c hawl him into the river;’ said
another, ‘ we will drown him.’ I got from them, and re-
treated back into my house. After that I went to Billings-