How were Huguenots in Spitalfields received by their English neighbours?

Many welcomed and aided them as Protestant refugees, but some English weavers and clergy resented them as foreigners who took work, grew rich and kept their own French form of worship.

Why was Christ Church built in Spitalfields?

It was one of the churches paid for under the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711, and Nicholas Hawksmoor’s huge building of 1714 to 1729 asserted the Church of England in a district full of Huguenot and other nonconformist chapels.

What happened in Spitalfields in July 1736?

Crowds of thousands shouting “Down with the Irish” attacked Irish pubs and homes for several nights, blaming Irish labourers for working below the usual rates, until soldiers restored order.

How did the authorities deal with the Spitalfields weavers’ riots of 1769?

Troops and Bow Street Runners raided the weavers’ meeting place at the Dolphin pub, and two weavers, John Doyle and John Valline, were hanged in Bethnal Green in December 1769.

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Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration

Settling in Spitalfields, and how newcomers were received

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Overview

Fournier Street and the Huguenot master weavers, their reception and Christ Church, the anti-Irish riots of 1736, the weavers' riots of 1769, established Jews and the Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter, the Jews' Free School, the British Brothers' League, Bengali squatters and the National Front on Brick Lane.

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Process

Which streets in Spitalfields were built up in the 1720s and became home to Huguenot master weavers and silk merchants?

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Where did the National Front openly challenge the Bangladeshi community of Brick Lane in the 1970s?

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Why was the house of the master weaver Lewis Chauvet attacked in 1769?

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1
Which streets in Spitalfields were built up in the 1720s and became home to Huguenot master weavers and silk merchants?
Model answer
Fournier Street, Princelet Street and Wilkes Street, whose early Georgian brick houses still stand.
2
How were Huguenots in Spitalfields received by their English neighbours?
Model answer
Many welcomed and aided them as Protestant refugees, but some English weavers and clergy resented them as foreigners who took work, grew rich and kept their own French form of worship.
3
Why was Christ Church built in Spitalfields?
Model answer
It was one of the churches paid for under the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711, and Nicholas Hawksmoor’s huge building of 1714 to 1729 asserted the Church of England in a district full of Huguenot and other nonconformist chapels.
4
What happened in Spitalfields in July 1736?
Model answer
Crowds of thousands shouting “Down with the Irish” attacked Irish pubs and homes for several nights, blaming Irish labourers for working below the usual rates, until soldiers restored order.
5
Why was the house of the master weaver Lewis Chauvet attacked in 1769?
Model answer
He refused to pay the rates the journeymen weavers had agreed, so gangs of “cutters” slashed the silk on the looms of those who worked for him.
6
How did the authorities deal with the Spitalfields weavers’ riots of 1769?
Model answer
Troops and Bow Street Runners raided the weavers’ meeting place at the Dolphin pub, and two weavers, John Doyle and John Valline, were hanged in Bethnal Green in December 1769.

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