Food Riot

[RichardB]

... some alarm was created by a food riot at Sheffield on April 14, in which a mob, chiefly composed of women and boys, seized potatoes and other vegetables and attacked the storehouse of local militia arms, taking away 78 stands of arms out of 864, and damaging some 200 more.

"It is evident, however,"

wrote General Gray on April 18th,

"that this affair was without plan or system, and I should suppose totallu unconnected the the proceedings at Leeds, Huddersfield etc,. particulary as everything has been perfectly quiet at Sheffield"