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Jeremiah Brandreth (1785 – 7 November 1817) was an out-of-work stocking maker who lived in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, who was beheaded for treason. He was known as "The Nottingham Captain". He and two of his conspirators were the last people to be beheaded with an axe in Britain.〔 accessed July 2007.〕 ==The plot== Brandreth was born in,Holborn, London and was baptised at St Andrews Holborn on June 26th 1785. The Brandreth family moved to Barnstaple, Devon, in 1786.In 1803 He was listed as a reservist in the 28th Regiment of foot and in the same year was present at the execution of Colonel Despard and six guardsmen in London.He moved to Sutton-in-Ashfield, where he had a wife and three children.() The Life of Jeremiah Brandreth by John Dring copyright Pentrich & South Wingfield Revolution Group. It is believed that Brandreth was involved in Luddite activities in 1811.He was involved in a Luddite raid in 1811 when a fellow Luddite was shot dead. He met William J. Oliver ("Oliver the Spy") in May 1817 and agreed to cooperate in a plan where he would join 50,000 men in London to storm the Tower. It is widely believed that Brandreth was a victim of the then Home Secretary, Lord Sidmouth, who took severe measures against Luddite rioters.〔''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'' (1990). p. 1346.〕 The "revolution" began on 9 June 1817. Brandreth had held a final meeting at a pub in Pentridge, or Pentrich, The White Horse, where he and his fellow conspirators were to lead a march on Nottingham where "they would receive 100 guineas, bread, meat and ale." They would then lead an attack on the local barracks, overthrow the government and end "poverty for ever". They met soldiers in Giltbrook, near the town of Eastwood in Nottinghamshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeremiah Brandreth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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