LCS & other radicals

Government spy, a good description of his career on Thale p126n.
William Metcalfe son of Jeffery Metcalfe of St Bartholomew the Less articled 5.2.1772 to Edward Reynolds of Dowgate Hill, Vintners Co.
Jeofrey Metcalfe of St Bartholomew the Less married 23.3.1754 Jane Jackson of St Andrew Holborn, Mayfair non-parochial register
Law List 1792 William Metcalfe Tallow Chandlers Hall Dowgate Hill, clerk to the Company (till 1797)
Will PCC 29.10.1836 William Metcalfe of St Mary Newington Surrey (seen but inconclusive)
Reported on LCS Divs 6, 11, 9, 23 and 30

Maxwell fist appears in Thale p256 as a member of the Executive Committee of LCS on 2.7.1795. He remained on it , scoring high in ballots from the General Committee, till he resigned on 9.9.1795. John Maxwell cheesemonger of 39 Broad St Bloomsbury was on list for receiving subscriptions and signatures 12.11.1795. He was secretary of Div 17 on 2.10.1797 and 5.2.1798. He was arrested at a meeting of the United Englishmen at the Nags Head, St John St 9.4.1799 (but not imprisoned?)

Thale p127n, report from spy Metcalfe of LCS Div 11 on 1.4.1794 (Nat Arch TS 11/956/3501) enclosed 'A New Song by J_ M_' which starts 'Come my Sons of true Liberty, let us agree/ To form an Alliance firm honest and free/ Lets join hand in hand, as Reason upholds/ Her bright Torch to Friendship. Ah! let us be bold.' Thale added that the author may be Matthews, a bookseller who published a volume of songs.

23.3.1792 Susannah Lee of St Anns Court buried Soho age 69 (of old age)
1792 Soho ratebooks Richard Lee St Anns Court value £14
13.2.1794 letter from Thelwall "letter from Allum brought this morning by Citizen Lee" (source?)
28.2.1794 handbill printed by Richard Lee including his poem "Ye tyrants bend to Molloch's shrine" (Thale p119n)

(Thale) David Edwin gave evidence to LCS 4.9.1794 for spy Grove (who was wrongly acquitted by LCS of being a spy), Edwin said he had breakfasted with Grove on 18.8.1794. No other evidence to suggest he supported or was a member of LCS.

James Lapworth = Christ Church Newgate 1786 Mary Willby
St James Piccadilly rates James Lapworth £15 Carnaby Street East 1787 to 1803 (7 houses from LCS member John Moody)
SunFire 1788 James Lapworth 8 Carnaby St baker
Harriet Elizabeth d. of James & Mary Lapworth born 13.3.1792 bapt 15.6.1792 St Jas Picc'y
Alfred s. of James & Mary Lapworth born 11.4.1794 bapt 9.7.1794 St Jas Picc'y
James Lapworth baker Carnaby St on Westminster coroners' juries 17.5.1788, 7.8.1794, 29.8.1796, 27.10.1798

7.2.1793 Lambert delegate to LCS genl cttee from Div 28, same on 11.4.1793 when his name appeared on an LCS handbill as an address where a petition could be signed Lambert's bookseller 3 St George's Mall. 27.6.1793 Richard Hodgson delegate for Div 28, James Lambeth subdelegate. 29.8.1793 Lambeth delegate in place of Hodgson. 11.11.1793 Div 28 meeting place 4 St George's Mall, opposite Dog & Duck. (Thale p 48, 59, 60, 80, 91. 92) and Nat Arch TS 11/963 examination of spy Metcalfe says Div 28 met at Citizen Lambert's, 3 St George's Mall on Mondays.

Morning Post 16.4.1795 LCS ad for subs for state prisoners received among others by Jeremiah King, 183 St John St, Clerkenwell

Jeremiah King otp = St Jas Clerkenwell 7.5.1792 Ann Mansfield otp banns sigs, wit Wm Chaplin

SunFire 1797 Jeremiah King 9 Green Walk, Southwark gent. No clear identification

Morning Chronicle 25.3.1796 ad for subs for LCS sending deputies into the country, list of those receiving subs included Hughes, bookseller, Carthusian St, Charterhouse Sq (Thale p351 note 49). On 23.5.1796 Div 4 of LCS resolved against a general meeting, signed by John Arnold President and Jas Hughes Secretary (Thale p358). These two not certainly the same but are close in date and no other Hughes in Thale.

J Hill shoemaker, Ferriers Buildgs, Bishopsgate, marginal note in spy Gosling's report of 9.5.1794 at Hillier's (Thale p155 note 11).

Address not found, maybe error for Farrers Rents Bishopsgate but no J Hill found there, so unidentified