[261] Lengthy accounts appeared in the newspapers for March and April 1834. The indictment is given in full in the House of Commons Return, No. 250, of 1835 (June 1st). The legal report is in 6 C. and P. 596 (R. _v._ Loveless and others). The _Times_ reported the judge’s charge at some length, March 18, 1834, and the case itself March 20, 1834, giving the rules of the projected union. An able article in the _Law Magazine_, vol xi. pp. 460-72, discusses the law of the case. The defendants subsequently published two statements for popular circulation, viz. _Victims of Whiggery, a statement of the persecution experienced by the Dorchester Labourers_, by George Loveless (1837), and _A narrative of the sufferings of James Loveless, etc._ (1838), which are in the British Museum. See also _Labour Legislation, Labour Movements, and Labour Leaders_, by G. Howell, 1902, pp. 62-75; Spencer Walpole’s _History of England_, vol. iii. chap. xiii. pp. 229-31; and _Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates_, vols. xxii. and xxiii. [262] The student is referred to the admirable account of these proceedings in _The Village Labourer_, by J. L. and B. Hammond, 1912. See, for a contemporary account, _Swing Unmasked, or the Cause of Rural Incendiarism_, by G. C. Wakefield, M.P., 1831. [263] _Lord Melbourne’s Papers_, pp. 147-150, letters dated November 3 and 7, 1832. Lord Melbourne seems to have thought, probably quite incorrectly, that these rural organisations were in connection with the political organisation called the National Union of the Working Classes, founded by William Lovett in 1831, to support the Reform Bill. [264] _Times_, March 20, 1834. [265] _Lord Melbourne’s Papers_, p. 158. [266] _Times_, March 18, 20, 31; April 1, 16, 19, 1834; _Leeds Mercury_, April 26, 1834. [267] A prominent Owenite agitator of the time, incumbent of St. Nicholas, Warwick, who is said to have been inhibited from preaching by his bishop. [268] _Times_, April 22; _Companion to the Newspaper_, May and June 1834. Trade Union accounts declare that 100,000 to 200,000 persons were present. A detailed description of the day is given in Somerville’s _Autobiography of a Working Man_ (1848), not usually a trustworthy work. [269] _Times_, April 19, 1834.