Riots in Barton in the Beans

By: Graham Doel, January 13th, 2008

The next time, therefore , that John Taylor visited Barton, a number of persons from Nailstone, a village a mile distant, assembled; and endeavoured to disturb the worship. Some tied bells around their bodies and danced about the place: others sung and swore: and all united in the most violent threats against the preacher and his abettors.

Taylor (1818) The New Connexion, p.8

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One Response to “Riots in Barton in the Beans”

1. catriona Says:
   January 13th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

   Well, what can I say, they always were a funny lot in “nelson” as some around here pronounce it. Now in ‘uddelscut’ no one would behave so.

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