Entries for the tag ‘Rotation Office (late 1700s-early 1800s)’
Building on New Market Street, named for the magistrates who attended in rotation to hear cases not meriting a jury trial, office relocated in 1813 to the new courthouse; building also used to host public meetings, bottom floor the original home of The Leeds Library. 
- 15 January 1812: The Leeds authorities foil the first Luddite attack in Yorkshire – at Sheepscar
- 17 February 1812: Leeds businessmen meeting at the magistrates court act against the authors of the first successful Luddite attack in Yorkshire, at the Oates, Wood, and Smithson works at Oatlands, Woodhouse Carr
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