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October 10, 2023 / 01:16:00

This episode covers the Stanfield Hall murders, the launch of Morbid coffee, and the history of the Jeremy family. Ash and Elena introduce their coffee collaboration with Dead Sled Coffee, featuring two unique blends: Elena's Death Brew and Ash's Witch's Brew.

The episode begins with Ash and Elena discussing their excitement over the launch of their coffee blends, which coincide with National Coffee Day. They describe the flavors and packaging of their respective coffees, emphasizing their personal touches.

Following the coffee announcement, the hosts shift to the main topic, the Stanfield Hall murders that occurred in England in 1848. They detail the background of the Jeremy family, particularly Isaac Jeremy, and the tensions surrounding the inheritance of Stanfield Hall.

Listeners learn about James Bloomfield Rush, the man responsible for the murders, and the events leading up to the violent confrontation. The episode recounts the intricate relationships and conflicts that culminated in the tragic outcome.

As the story unfolds, Ash and Elena provide a dramatic retelling of the murders and the subsequent trial of Rush, highlighting the sensational nature of the case and its impact on the community.

TL;DR

Ash and Elena launch Morbid coffee and recount the 1848 Stanfield Hall murders involving Isaac Jeremy and James Bloomfield Rush.

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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and

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this is morbid

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[Music]

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but you know what's a not morbid what we

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have a freaking coffee that is launching

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and like realistically what goes better

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together than True Crime and coffee time

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truly truly you know how much we love

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coffee and we get to introduce the first

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morbid coffee with dead sled coffee

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the absolute most perfect and badass

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collab out there I have been loving dead

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sled for literal years at this point

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I've been a fan girly of dead sled

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coffee in OG they've collabed with some

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of my favorite people like Elvira they

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have Rob Zombie coffee like they're I'm

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losing my mind at this collaboration

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well guys now they have us because in

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honor of National Coffee Day we are

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launching not just one but two morbid

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Brews just for you weirdos one is just

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funny and the other is just for Elena

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Elena's is really exciting it's got like

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luxurious black packaging and it's

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called Elena's death Brew hell yeah it

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is a blend so strong it will actually

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Wake the Dead and I think we're kind of

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hoping that you Savor this dark raw rope

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we're kind of hoping that you Savor this

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dark roast though so you can enjoy the

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notes of tiramisu as you energize your

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inner creativity hell yeah I'm so

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excited about my packaging I can't wait

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for you to see it I'm even more excited

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possibly because Ash's packaging is Ash

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to a tea it is literally spellbinding

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pink packaging pink and it's called

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Ash's witch's brew which is made for all

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you witches on the go go go on the go go

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go go go go go go go

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and we love it because it's a medium

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dark roast which has an essence of

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lavender and honey in it very Ash and

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it's the Perfect Blend to harness the

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power of your [ __ ] higher self

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and not only this so that we we have

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this coffee coming out the two different

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ones you can also get one of the new

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zodiac mugs out of our zodiac mug

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collection that we're launching it's

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gonna go along with your coffee blend of

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choice because we said we can't just

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give them coffee we have to give them

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something to put the coffee in hell yeah

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so you get to choose between zodiac mugs

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that channel either your inner Elena

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with a dark goth Vibe or you can Channel

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your inner me Ash and those mugs have a

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bright and groovy Vibe and more exciting

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you can also personalize your star sign

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on your mug with your name or for like a

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fellow weirdo that you love where are my

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fellow Cappies out there Gemini and

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what's exciting too is this is also

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going to come with a coffee tray that

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can hold all your coffee accoutrements

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all your Essentials and it comes in two

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different styles hell yeah one's Ashy

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and one's Elena yeah this is the most

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exciting thing ever and I actually I'm

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not even joking you it's so gray outside

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right now that I need a cup of our

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coffee and we brewed a Elena's roast

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this morning yes get the Gray Away oh

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seriously so gray it's morbid and it's

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rainy

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rainy it's very gray up it is very gray

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out it's very great in too it's great

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and it's great out I feel gray it's gray

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all around great all day Grail day all

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freaking day but you know what we're

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we're bringing it oh yeah we may be

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feeling gray right now but we're

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bringing it bringing it right to yeah so

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we're bringing it we're bringing you

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some gray old-timey

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Shenanigans you know it's funny whenever

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you tell an old-timey story in my head I

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see it in black and white so it is gray

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I love that so it is it's like grayscale

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yeah you know what this is brought to

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you by Gray we said that word so many

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times I think it just lost all meaning

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uh but yeah today is gonna be an

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old-timey one

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it's an interesting one because it's

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just got so many old-timey elements to

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it like it's got heirs and Estates and

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land owning and I just slam my head into

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landoning landoning you know so

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old-timey wait I think the rider strike

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just ended oh [ __ ] that's what somebody

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just texted us so someone's someone just

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texted somebody told us it's true they

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had come to

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um a like tentative agreement ah so

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those are still tentative so well

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everybody's got to sign off on it but oh

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okay but hey oh sounds good okay let's

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go Brothers yeah sorry I I knew you were

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looking forward to Brothers thank you uh

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that is exciting let's hope that it all

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continues going in the right direction

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there you go you know because then it's

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the actors next they gotta get on board

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oh gosh but that's later I know we love

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to hear it and this case is called the

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Stanfield Hall murders

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and it's very uh it's in England

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um it's it's very like if you I want you

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to look up Stanfield Hall okay and if

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you look up Stanfield Hall murders you

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will get a picture of the the place that

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this happened as it looks today okay it

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is the most gorgeous estate I have ever

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seen so that's why people were fighting

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over it and I'm pretty sure it sold like

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recently for like 5.25 million or it was

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on sale for 5.25 million is it this yes

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it's oh gorgeous I love a building

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covered in Greenery and Moss and Ivy

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give me an ivy color covered Stone

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building with a moat around it and sign

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me the [ __ ] up I love that you said

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there has to be a motor there has to be

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a mode around it this place has a boat

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look at the [ __ ] I'm sorry it's

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gorgeous oh my God so this happened so

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on November 28 1848 a guy named Isaac

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Jeremy and his son found themselves

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under attack at their win ham estate

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Stanfield Hall in England I think it was

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Norwich where it was what led to their

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murders was a long Feud that like I said

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involved Estates rightful heirs and

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angry land tenants oh the worst of them

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a lot of messiness involved here

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so and the guy that that did it that was

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convicted of doing it and at the end

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will obviously tell you who uh he had a

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lot of stuff go on in his life that

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you're like there's a lot of

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coincidences around you that when you

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look back on it you're like huh oh

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coincidence air bunnies air bunnies

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quote unquote yikes uh so let's get into

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it well first let's talk about the

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Jeremy family because these are the

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victims these are the ones that only

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stayed at the time okay so born Isaac

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Preston on September 23rd 1789 Isaac

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Jeremy had resided at the family's

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estate which is Stanford hall for pretty

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much all of his life wow um there were

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some years in between where I spent some

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time training at Westminster school to

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become a lawyer but other than that it

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was Stanfield holler bust he was living

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there I feel that but after he graduated

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from Westminster and he got admitted to

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the bar bully for him that's pretty

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great he practiced law in Norwich and

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after this he ended up taking a seat on

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the Norfolk Circuit Court and then

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became appointed as recorder of Norwich

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in 1838 which was a pretty pretty good

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position and he held it until his death

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he's a big deal yeah now when his father

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Reverend George Preston died in 1837

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Isaac inherited the family state which

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included Stanfield hall because he's the

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oldest boy I'm the oldest boy and it was

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then that he took the name and this is

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where it gets a little like you're like

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what the [ __ ] happening right now

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because old-timey [ __ ] gets weird it

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does when he inherited this estate in

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Stanfield Hall he took the name of his

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ancestor William Jeremy which was

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necessary for him to take ownership of

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the Family Estate you gotta change your

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whole last name if you look at like land

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transferred to you so instead of being a

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Preston he now had to be a Jeremy

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because the Jeremy's owned the estate

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yeah so it's like that it was like

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necessary by law weird and so he also

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had to take on the Jeremy coat of arms

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for it to become legally his I kind of

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like the tradition of it all it's kind

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of fun yeah I mean it was complicated

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and fun I love it it would suck if

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you're like what like 30 and then all of

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a sudden your name's William and it used

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to be Isaac like that might be I mean

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it's concerning but well I mean well he

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could keep Isaac but he had to be Isaac

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Jeremy now oh okay so now either maybe I

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wasn't clear about that but he yeah

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Isaac Preston became Isaac germ so it's

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like you're marrying the house I was

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just gonna say so it's like yeah you're

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taking someone else's you're taking the

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houses yeah okay I like that you know

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Stanfield Hall should it deserves that

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you know I would marry that place why

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not

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so he became Jeremy he has the Jeremy

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coat of arms and at the time of his

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death he lived in the house with his son

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Isaac Jeremy Jr oh my God I know he also

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lived with Isaac Jeremy junior's wife

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who was pregnant at the time of the

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murders and several domestic workers who

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lived on the estate so this guy lives

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with his son and his daughter-in-law

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exactly okay uh and like a bunch of

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people who worked in the sure sure now

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following the death of Reverend George

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Preston so the dad exactly in 1837

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Thomas Jeremy and his cousin John larner

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part of the fam both members of but not

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direct Heirs of the Jeremy family they

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were like wait a second no no no why is

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Isaac Preston now Jeremy getting this

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entire [ __ ] why is he taking possession

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of the estate I want to claim it for me

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I'm a Jeremy but you're not you're not

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but he's not a director yeah

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right they want to try to take it claim

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it for themselves and I say nice try

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dude or sins but it's not gonna happen

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the bloodline just doesn't work that way

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exactly I'm the oldest boy

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and Thomas said me too but of a

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different family uh and then Jeremy said

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he said no it's fine no I have the coat

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of arms I said you may be an eldest boy

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but I'm the eldest boy that's a

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succession uh you know reference by the

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way in case you're like why are you

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screaming that yeah uh so when they

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tried to convince the courts that they

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were the rightful heirs meaning Thomas

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Jeremy and his cousin John larner uh

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that was in September 1838 the courts

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were like

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no uh no you're not yeah so not one to

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sit down and you know listen to logic

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Thomas Jeremy gathered a group of

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laborers and attempted to take the

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estate by force oh my God like Gaston

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and beauty and they tried to storm the

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castle and be like it's mine it's so

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true they brought a big old tree lump

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with them yeah

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I meant to say stump

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I told you I told you I was gray inside

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I I tree lump and stump all right men we

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have our tree lump let's go

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get get your torches and your tree lumps

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no that is funny uh yeah he gassed on it

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and everybody had torches and [ __ ] and

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they were gonna take that [ __ ] by force

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but they were turned away by a name a

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man by a name by a name a name came

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strolling out and was like no no

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actually had a name uh he did his boy

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does James Rush uh he served as Isaac

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Jeremy's bailiff at the time and he came

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out and was like no no because Isaac

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Jeremy said bailiff bailiff just like

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judge Judith shine love that's exactly

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he calls the bailiff I'm sure it was

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just like that that's similar uh but

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Thomas was so so they got turned away uh

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James Rush was like I don't think so

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he's like you all get on out of here and

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Thomas Jeremy was actually brought to

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trial but was ultimately acquitted for

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this whole thing damn but still was not

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satisfied even though he got acquitted

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he got away with almost taking that

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estate by force yeah is that like

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conspiracies

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like yeah or not even burglary just like

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conspiracy to commit home invasion yeah

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like grand larceny of house

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but like conspiracy because he didn't

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ever get there because you just didn't

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get there you just planned it you just

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had to take your teeth tree lump and go

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home and then the bailiff said nah but

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he wasn't satisfied with that so he

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returned to after getting acquitted

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getting away with it like take your take

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your lumps and leave he returned to

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Stanfield Hall in September 24th and

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this time you brought a much larger

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group of him and a bigger tree and

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they've in a bigger tree love like and

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they broke into the mansion with

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crowbars oh [ __ ] and once inside they

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forced all the workers to flee the house

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and barricaded themselves inside damn so

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they took over this house and we're like

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this is mine now now rather than try to

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convince them to come out like coax them

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out Isaac Jeremy called for military

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assistance and uh they were forcibly

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taken out of the house by military

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assistance this is insane

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and they were put on trial what the [ __ ]

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eventually they all pleaded guilty to

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minor offenses of rioting which is a

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minor offense in comparison to what they

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could have gotten because Thomas Jeremy

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and John larner each only served three

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months for the offense that against

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Isaac Jeremy and the laborers that they

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assembled for the purpose of breaking

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into this house they got even lighter

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sentences wow um in Isaac Jeremy was in

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like like I said he was the recorder for

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Norwich so he was in a pretty big

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position in the county uh he was the

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County recorder and he could have easily

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pursued very tough sentences against

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these especially Thomas and John right

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the ringleaders because they'd seized

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his home like that you could have [ __ ]

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them up after trying multiple times he

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had all the right to and he had all the

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power to but he chose not to it's family

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and even with that even with Isaac being

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like

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I'm Gonna Let You just serve a little

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bit of a sentence and hopefully that

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kind of knocks some sense into you still

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the animosity over the incident got

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really bad uh-oh and there was still the

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continued belief that Isaac Jeremy

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wasn't the rightful Heir so it created a

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huge Rift between the families that

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continued until Isaac's death in 19

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1848. wow

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um so during the first attempted

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takeover of the Stanfield estate

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um James Rush who I talked about before

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the bailiff his name is James Bloomfield

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Rush he actually played like a huge role

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in stopping the men from trying to take

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over the house like that was him who

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stopped that but even though he was

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still in in employment with uh Isaac

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Jeremy at the time that this all ended

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like when like you know Thomas and John

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were sentenced to three months and all

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that the relationship between them had

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kind of soured it had become a little

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complicated by this time so even though

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he was a huge own stopping that whole

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thing in the first place things were not

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going as smoothly as they could uh oh he

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was born in 1809 to Mary Bloomfield and

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he was the product of a rather illicit

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Affair between Mary and a Gentleman

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farmer in windmenham

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and that Affair ended pretty quickly

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when he was like two years old and when

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it came to an end she actually Mary sued

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this uh this man for breach of promise

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and was awarded a lot of like a good

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amount of money by the courts because he

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was supposed to marry her right but she

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used that money to care for her son and

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James never really ended up knowing who

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his father was like he didn't want

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anything to do with them what a sad like

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sad start yeah so she ended up luckily

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Mary ended up meeting another man James

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Bloom uh James rush and he was like you

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know what I like this little kid I want

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to marry you so she convinced him like

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you know this can be your father okay

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this is your father figure now and Mr

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Rochelle call him Mr rush just to make

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it easier because James Roche yeah yeah

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so the father Mr Rush

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um he basically treated him as his own

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child and even amended his name to

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include his surname wow because remember

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he was James Bloomfield before this but

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now he's James Bloomfield Rush gotcha

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gotcha um so his parents got married his

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stepfather and his mom got married and

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James and his mother moved in with Mr

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Rush who was a tenant of Reverend George

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Preston

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who is Isaac Jeremy's father okay yeah I

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know no you're doing a good job because

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I would be so confused right now I'm

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glad I'm glad that it's making sense and

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Reverend George Preston uh so had given

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them this home which they could rent uh

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it was like a modest house adjacent to

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the Stanfield Hall estate okay like a

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guest house kind of yeah it was kind of

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like that whole thing so

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um again Mr Rush The Stepfather he

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didn't have any children of his own at

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the time that he married Mary right so

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he really did treat James as his own son

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he sent him to the best school in the

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area

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um and appla upon completing schooling

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James Jr there returned to Norwich in

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1828 and he got married nice after this

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he began working as a tenant Farmer for

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w-e-l bulwer at dollingwood farms

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um but Rush thought that farming was

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going to be a little easier than it

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actually was I don't know what gave him

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that idea because farming to me looks

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really hard sounds like a lot of hard

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work and within a year he was losing

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money on his farm and in an attempt to

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get back some of these losses he

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actually ended up setting fire to a

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bunch of stacks of Wheat and submitted

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an insurance claim uh-oh um saying that

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they had caught fire by accident that's

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fake as [ __ ] and there were definitely

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rumors everywhere in Gossip that he had

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definitely set that fire

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and even rumors that he was going to be

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arrested for arson but there was no

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proof of him being the arsonist so the

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company did pay out the claim oh

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probably like so begrudgingly yeah and

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it definitely gave him a false sense of

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confidence like well I got away with it

00:19:05

so a few years later in 1830 while still

00:19:09

living under that tenancy agreement with

00:19:11

bulwer with a farm where he was living

00:19:13

James again found that he was losing

00:19:16

money he was struggling financially but

00:19:18

this time uh he started blaming outside

00:19:22

sources not like his inability to farm

00:19:24

now he was blaming the competition other

00:19:27

Farmers for his inability to make a

00:19:29

profit it was all their fault that's not

00:19:31

that he couldn't do it and so he decided

00:19:34

you know what instead of working harder

00:19:36

or trying something else that I might be

00:19:38

better at I'm just gonna turn to more

00:19:41

felonious Behavior so he assembled the

00:19:43

mob of laborers which seems like

00:19:45

something that a lot of people enjoy

00:19:47

doing back then I guess yeah you get mad

00:19:49

and you just assemble laborers up some

00:19:52

laborers and he led them to a farm in

00:19:55

nearby Folsom

00:19:56

where once they got there they destroyed

00:20:00

a ton of pieces of huge farm equipment

00:20:03

and then they all ran in opposite

00:20:05

directions so they [ __ ] up all the

00:20:07

farm equipment and then left basically

00:20:09

trying to make it so this farm would get

00:20:11

wouldn't be able to function yeah so he

00:20:14

was trying to [ __ ] up the competition

00:20:15

instead of just doing better himself

00:20:17

that's not a good way to win he did end

00:20:19

up Rush was arrested a short time later

00:20:21

and he was tried for especially for

00:20:23

leading the mob but no verdict was ever

00:20:26

returned and he was released into his

00:20:29

own recognizance to keep the peace

00:20:32

what so it's just like yeah you just

00:20:35

leave they're like don't do that I just

00:20:37

don't want to [ __ ] around so it's like

00:20:39

cool this guy just keeps getting away

00:20:40

with this [ __ ] damn now his tenancy

00:20:43

agreement with bulwer came to an end in

00:20:45

1835 probably to everyone's like few

00:20:49

um and that's when he entered into a new

00:20:51

tenancy agreement with Reverend George

00:20:54

Preston Isaac Jeremy's father okay

00:20:57

um he had known him as a child because

00:20:59

remember he had grown up on that

00:21:01

property with his stepfather and Islam

00:21:04

so he knew this man he knew the Preston

00:21:06

family knew all of them and so they were

00:21:08

like yep we'll give you a tenancy

00:21:10

agreement to live on our property so

00:21:12

with this new agreement he was allotted

00:21:14

a parcel of farmland and a home and that

00:21:17

was in exchange for a fee of 110 pounds

00:21:20

per year and in a percentage of the

00:21:22

profits from farming for a period of 18

00:21:24

years so he would have to pay rent and

00:21:27

he would also have a give a give a

00:21:29

percentage of whatever he got from his

00:21:32

crops for 18 years damn uh that's a

00:21:35

shitty agreement I guess it was kind of

00:21:37

this is another little like side note

00:21:39

because it's weird that I'm doing this

00:21:41

one right now because this makes weird

00:21:43

sense to me now I'm reading slew foot by

00:21:46

Brahm it's a really good book you guys

00:21:49

should read it check it out out I think

00:21:50

I posted it on my stories but I'll post

00:21:52

it again and uh in that it's from like

00:21:54

the 16th or 17th hundreds yeah they they

00:21:57

have a similar agreement of like all

00:21:59

tenant out this Farmland to you you have

00:22:02

to pay me rent and also give me a

00:22:04

percentage of the profits for like 10

00:22:05

years okay and that's part of the story

00:22:07

in slew foot so and it so hearing this

00:22:10

now I'm like this is weird that this is

00:22:11

coming back yeah that's I that's always

00:22:13

weird when that happens when you find

00:22:14

out like random information and then it

00:22:16

applies like somewhere else in your life

00:22:17

yeah I didn't mean for that to line up

00:22:19

like that but life is a simulation so

00:22:22

you know he's gotta he's got a deal he's

00:22:24

living on there he's got to he's got his

00:22:26

own Farm he's just gotta share some of

00:22:28

it

00:22:29

um

00:22:30

so what he did was he also entered into

00:22:32

a second tenancy agreement for his

00:22:34

father-in-law under the same conditions

00:22:36

but this time he was going to be paying

00:22:38

130 pounds per year so he's under a

00:22:41

tendency agreement with Reverend George

00:22:43

Preston and he's under attendance

00:22:45

agreement with for like another farm for

00:22:48

his father-in-law okay so he's paying

00:22:50

out but he's making money it's one of

00:22:52

those things that used to happen very

00:22:54

often back then and the next year he

00:22:56

actually entered into a third agreement

00:22:58

for tenancy with Preston again for

00:23:01

another Farm on the Stanfield Hall of

00:23:03

state with similar conditions but this

00:23:05

one was at 500 pounds per year oh wow

00:23:08

um and at that same time he entered he

00:23:12

accepted a position as Reverend Preston

00:23:14

Steward an advisor in all matters of

00:23:17

business wow so now he's under three

00:23:19

tenant agreements he's got a place on

00:23:22

the Preston estate he's paying out this

00:23:24

money to three different well Preston

00:23:26

he's given two different rents too and

00:23:28

then he's paying off his father in law

00:23:30

but he's also got this new position now

00:23:32

advising Reverend Preston so he's like

00:23:34

he's getting there he's doing good

00:23:37

seems like it's going to be like all

00:23:38

right let's go right and you know what

00:23:40

for Rush this whole thing was good in

00:23:43

life and working with George Preston was

00:23:45

good but when he died in 1837 in

00:23:49

possession of the Family Estate passed

00:23:51

to Isaac Preston now Jeremy and it ended

00:23:54

up being discovered that the three

00:23:56

tenancy agreements that he had actually

00:23:59

entered into had actually been illegally

00:24:02

executed oh so is that like a get out of

00:24:06

jail free card that's not it's it's not

00:24:08

good for any it's like his land is

00:24:11

technically like oh yeah so although

00:24:14

Isaac did keep Rush on as his Steward

00:24:18

once his father had died he rescinded

00:24:21

the illegal tenancy agreements and

00:24:23

issued new leases for the three

00:24:25

properties okay but he issued these

00:24:28

leases at slightly higher rates from the

00:24:31

other oh it's a different time am I

00:24:33

doing inflation so it sounds like

00:24:36

Reverend George press Austin was like

00:24:38

kind of doing him a little bit of a

00:24:39

solid yeah and Isaac was like I'm gonna

00:24:42

run things a little different here yeah

00:24:44

which at least he was he was like I'll

00:24:46

give you new ones like for the right

00:24:48

price

00:24:49

now despite the increased fees being

00:24:52

more or less comparable to the rates of

00:24:54

the day the increase was the first issue

00:24:58

in their relationship the first issue in

00:25:01

a series of events that would eventually

00:25:03

lead to Isaac Jeremy being murdered oh

00:25:06

so several years later in late 1843

00:25:09

Isaac got his eye on a potash Farm I

00:25:13

think it's how you say a potash okay

00:25:15

um that abutted the land on on the place

00:25:17

where Stanfield Hall was sitting okay

00:25:20

and he directed Rush his Steward to go

00:25:24

assess the land's value and to make an

00:25:27

offer of purchase to the seller so I was

00:25:30

like go get that land for me

00:25:31

and what Jeremy didn't know was that

00:25:34

Rush also had an interest in the land

00:25:37

and hoped to get it for himself

00:25:40

so Rush valued the property at 3 500

00:25:44

pounds and at Isaac Jeremy's behest he

00:25:48

made a bid on the man's behalf for

00:25:50

thirty five hundred dollars but

00:25:52

immediately after that Rush went back

00:25:56

and submitted his own bid on the

00:25:58

property for

00:26:00

3750

00:26:02

out bidding Isaac Jeremy and taking the

00:26:06

property was he just gonna wave from his

00:26:08

like to his employer from that's

00:26:10

something he just bought stole out from

00:26:12

under him yeah like what the [ __ ] what's

00:26:14

your plan there dude and Isaac Jeremy

00:26:16

was pissed he was not pleased by this

00:26:19

because he was like you're duplicitous

00:26:21

what the [ __ ] yeah but even then he

00:26:26

agreed to lend the man the money to

00:26:28

purchase the land he was like well you

00:26:31

outbid me

00:26:32

but I have to give you the money yeah

00:26:34

that doesn't even make any sense exactly

00:26:37

because he's like under his tenancy

00:26:39

and so he was like all right sure and he

00:26:43

wrote up a new agreement for the amount

00:26:45

of 5 000 pounds and under the terms of

00:26:47

the new agreement the sale was charged

00:26:49

to the Jeremy estate and mortgage to

00:26:52

rush at four percent interest per year

00:26:55

which was roughly I think around like

00:26:58

200 pounds and this was with the

00:27:00

understanding that the mortgage would be

00:27:02

paid off as of November 30th 1848. so

00:27:06

I think by now you can see it's getting

00:27:09

messy yeah this is messy business we're

00:27:13

intertwining a lot of things there's a

00:27:15

lot of uh Faith being placed on people's

00:27:18

you know honesty and in which they have

00:27:21

them honor of which it doesn't look like

00:27:23

there's a ton going around

00:27:26

um and also and here's where the side

00:27:27

note comes in about uh James Rush

00:27:31

he owned he ended up owning this land

00:27:33

along with his stepfather Mr Rush okay

00:27:37

and on October 24th 1844 they the two of

00:27:41

them Mr rush and his son James

00:27:43

Bloomfield rush they went out hunting

00:27:45

together alone

00:27:47

and when they returned alone

00:27:50

Rush senior was in the kitchen of this

00:27:53

property admiring Rush Jr's new shotgun

00:27:57

when it accidentally went off

00:28:00

they were alone

00:28:02

oh Rush senior was killed by this when

00:28:06

they were alone when they were alone and

00:28:08

he was just admiring the shotgun yep and

00:28:11

it just boomed they had a wonderful

00:28:12

hunting trip before that together yep

00:28:14

huh yeah

00:28:16

and

00:28:17

one would look at this and maybe say

00:28:20

suss were you looking to get money yeah

00:28:24

from his estate well unfortunately for

00:28:27

him rush senior had left his estate to

00:28:30

his wife Mary well yeah James's mom

00:28:33

uh-oh so he didn't get any Financial

00:28:35

payout for that death not that I'm

00:28:37

saying that he wanted it no because we

00:28:40

don't know it's strange that they were

00:28:43

alone and this happened and the only

00:28:45

person to be able to tell this story is

00:28:47

James Rush who was in need of financial

00:28:50

compensation a little Troublesome but

00:28:52

you know whatever he didn't get paid no

00:28:54

matter what so it didn't mean anything

00:28:57

so now in 18 there'll be more of that by

00:28:59

the way so now in 1844 this meant that

00:29:02

rush now owned three Farms with tenancy

00:29:05

agreements held by Isaac Jeremy

00:29:08

and in the years that followed Rush

00:29:10

borrowed more money to renovate and

00:29:12

expand his farming operation so he was

00:29:15

under a lot of debt and by October 1847

00:29:19

he'd Fallen very behind on his payments

00:29:23

to Jeremy and was eventually served

00:29:25

eviction papers from the property on the

00:29:28

Stanfield Hall State

00:29:29

and at this point he went to live so

00:29:32

that um that property on the Stanfield

00:29:34

Hall estate he got evicted from okay and

00:29:37

he ended up moving to live on the potash

00:29:39

Farm okay or potash I don't know if it's

00:29:42

potash or potash somebody's gonna yell

00:29:44

at me I like potash I like potash it

00:29:46

just feels right or potash

00:29:50

potash seems like you're spinning you're

00:29:52

like potash yeah you know like but two

00:29:55

but either way that's Farm

00:29:58

um a few months later when Rush still

00:30:01

didn't pay Jeremy after he moved to that

00:30:03

other Farm uh Isaac filed suit for

00:30:06

breach of covenants and the case went to

00:30:08

trial in March 1848 so now he's suing

00:30:11

him for not paying him good the same

00:30:13

year James Rush's mother died Mary I

00:30:18

knew that was coming and it was said

00:30:20

that John or that um James was

00:30:24

incredibly attentive to her in her final

00:30:26

days uh-huh and servants in the home

00:30:29

were quoted as saying that they

00:30:32

witnessed him uh serving her soaked

00:30:35

breads by hand right before she passed

00:30:38

away soaked in what so

00:30:42

I don't know I don't know what happened

00:30:46

there uh she died though parents die

00:30:49

it's one of those sad things you know at

00:30:51

that point but you know what's strange

00:30:54

about this one is like you know his

00:30:57

stepfather has died under a strange and

00:30:59

tragic circumstance not long and he said

00:31:02

that money's mine right and they said

00:31:04

nope it's your mom's and he said oh then

00:31:07

his mom died under tragic circumstances

00:31:10

with him being by her side and her last

00:31:13

moments and then he says that money's

00:31:15

mine right and they say no she left it

00:31:19

to her grandchildren oh [ __ ] I wonder

00:31:23

why she didn't leave it to him that's a

00:31:24

little suss that's the other piece of

00:31:26

this puzzle is like what was your

00:31:27

problem how come no one left you money

00:31:28

look how come yeah and so you know being

00:31:34

not a man to sit down and let things

00:31:36

just play out the way that they're

00:31:38

supposed to he forged her signature and

00:31:40

did an amendment on the documents to

00:31:43

make him in control of her money

00:31:46

and if that doesn't tell you a little

00:31:48

bit about what possibly happened I don't

00:31:51

know what does oh no no no no no no

00:31:53

seems a little suspicious just a little

00:31:56

a little suspicious you know I don't

00:31:58

know I wasn't there maybe this is all

00:32:00

maybe he's just being followed by very

00:32:02

ghastly coincidences but I don't know

00:32:05

take what you will from it he ended up

00:32:08

getting control of the money

00:32:10

um and yeah meanwhile as that's

00:32:13

happening the eviction and the lawsuit

00:32:15

with Isaac Jeremy is only worsening

00:32:18

their relationship it had already been

00:32:20

crumbling and it's getting worse at this

00:32:22

point right um in a few weeks after the

00:32:25

trial

00:32:26

James Rush actually published and

00:32:29

distributed a pamphlet that claimed to

00:32:32

present a fair and accurate

00:32:34

representation of the trial okay yeah

00:32:37

it's very Hamilton how could that be

00:32:38

fair and accurate when one of the

00:32:40

parties involved is writing it thank you

00:32:42

and in it Rush claimed that he only took

00:32:45

on the tenant farming leases with the

00:32:47

Jeremy family just to improve his

00:32:50

financial situation for his family okay

00:32:53

and he said quote and this is no reason

00:32:55

why I should be ruined in character by

00:32:58

this villain as well as my property

00:33:00

being swallowed up by him

00:33:02

and apparently showing evidence of

00:33:04

Jeremy's villainry he put forth the

00:33:07

false claim that Isaac Jeremy had no

00:33:10

right to the property in the first place

00:33:12

oh so he decided to jump on that

00:33:15

bandwagon John larner and Thomas uh

00:33:19

Jeremy bandwagon and say he's not the

00:33:21

rightful Heir even though I stopped them

00:33:24

from doing whatever they were planning I

00:33:25

may I may have put you know completely

00:33:27

backed him when it benefited me but now

00:33:30

that it doesn't he's not the rightful

00:33:32

Heir that's fake he said this fellow

00:33:34

Jeremy has no right to the Stanfield

00:33:36

property he knows it and he knows I know

00:33:39

it as well his whole conduct in keeping

00:33:41

possession and taking the name of Jeremy

00:33:43

and his behavior to those poor people

00:33:45

who ever write to it those poor people

00:33:47

who he chased out of the house when they

00:33:49

were trying to take it over has been

00:33:51

most villainous and disgraceful to any

00:33:54

men who any man who have any pretension

00:33:57

to respectability and which I should be

00:33:59

most happy to prove when called on to do

00:34:01

so if there's any truth in the Bible

00:34:04

such villainy is sure to be overtaken

00:34:07

and that when it may be at least

00:34:09

expected

00:34:10

so he's saying if there's any truth to

00:34:12

the to the Bible

00:34:14

then that place is going to be taken

00:34:17

back by the rightful owners and it's

00:34:18

like I don't know that sounds aggressive

00:34:20

why are you bringing the Bible

00:34:22

I don't know about that you sure are you

00:34:25

sure about

00:34:27

so he had a full plan and that he is

00:34:30

setting into motion that he's like okay

00:34:33

you want to [ __ ] with me because I

00:34:35

didn't pay you what you are rightfully

00:34:36

owed

00:34:37

like that's that's what I love he's like

00:34:39

oh oh what you want to be paid right

00:34:42

what you are rightfully owed sir how

00:34:44

dare you no no you're gonna bring me to

00:34:46

court to get money that I owe you huh no

00:34:50

I'm gonna [ __ ] with you and he's like

00:34:51

I'm gonna destroy your reputation

00:34:54

and it became even clearer when they

00:34:56

found a letter he had sent to his own

00:34:58

son in April just after the pamphlet had

00:35:00

been published and in that letter he

00:35:02

said I have at last got Jeremy in a fix

00:35:05

and the Rouge in the Rouge and villain

00:35:08

knows it well how he will act now will

00:35:11

soon be seen at all events he now knows

00:35:13

if he ruins me I can him or you would

00:35:17

not or you would not have seen him as

00:35:19

you have but I do not want anyone know

00:35:22

this except for your wife and her aunt

00:35:25

so he's basically being like I've put it

00:35:27

out there he knows now you [ __ ] with me

00:35:30

I [ __ ] with you harder yeah and he's

00:35:33

saying like basically he knows I can

00:35:34

ruin him no matter what even if he's

00:35:36

correct in what he's asserting okay and

00:35:38

he's like I don't want anyone to know

00:35:40

that I'm pulling this [ __ ] okay which is

00:35:42

like you're just outing yourself all

00:35:44

over them that's the thing I'm like you

00:35:45

don't want anyone to know this but it

00:35:46

sounds like we all know a big old case

00:35:48

of the dumb but over the summer and into

00:35:51

the fall of 1848 Rush got to scheming

00:35:54

and scheming and scheming and all he

00:35:57

wanted to do was get out of those leases

00:35:58

with Jeremy because he was like get me

00:36:00

out of here and he's Enlisted the help

00:36:02

of none other than Thomas Jeremy and

00:36:05

John larner I knew we weren't done with

00:36:07

them yet and in a letter from October

00:36:09

3rd 1848 Rush laid out his plan to them

00:36:14

vaguely hinting at the idea of retaking

00:36:17

Stanfield Hall

00:36:19

and he figured what we can do is that

00:36:23

Thomas Jeremy and John larner will take

00:36:25

possession of it their family

00:36:28

so he said after the new possessors take

00:36:31

possession of Stanfield Hall this whole

00:36:33

plan would mean that they now agree to

00:36:36

new terms for his tenancy leases at a

00:36:40

much lower rate so he said help me take

00:36:42

over this place and give me a lower rate

00:36:44

on myself exactly okay help me take over

00:36:46

the place you get Stanfield tall and

00:36:49

then by taking over Stanfield Hall you

00:36:51

take on my tenancy agreements you give

00:36:53

me a lower rate we all win okay which is

00:36:56

to them sounds good must sound like a

00:36:59

good plan I would think but they weren't

00:37:02

exactly confident in Russia's ability to

00:37:05

prove that Thomas Jeremy was the

00:37:07

rightful heir to the Family Estate

00:37:09

because they are not plain and simple

00:37:11

and they're like we've we've been down

00:37:12

this road and the court just said no

00:37:16

so the the two of them said no thank you

00:37:20

which is shocking uh but they've had

00:37:23

enough so they were like no thank you

00:37:25

we're good but then James Rush produced

00:37:28

what he claimed to be

00:37:30

George Preston's Reverend George

00:37:32

Preston's the father his original will

00:37:36

which he said named Thomas Jeremy as the

00:37:40

heir but that doesn't even make any

00:37:41

sense that's not his child exactly like

00:37:44

that would never seems Rush had forged

00:37:46

this document only a couple of days

00:37:48

before this correct so the forge

00:37:51

documents apparently were witnessed

00:37:54

being forged by Russia's mistress Emily

00:37:58

Sanford the plot thickens baby and even

00:38:02

though they were clearly forged and that

00:38:04

Emily had watched the whole thing go

00:38:06

down Thomas and John were like

00:38:09

sounds good to me that seems like

00:38:11

something you could prove so they were

00:38:13

like let's go we'll help you with this

00:38:15

so in the weeks before the actual

00:38:18

because they weren't just planning to

00:38:21

just take over Stanfield Hall their plan

00:38:23

was to kill Isaac Jeremy they needed to

00:38:26

get him out of the way forever so in the

00:38:29

weeks before this all happened and they

00:38:31

I think what their plan was was to like

00:38:33

take over the hall but Russia's plan I

00:38:36

believe all along was to get them get

00:38:38

them gone right so in the weeks before

00:38:40

this all happened rush started showing

00:38:43

some unusual behavior

00:38:45

um he would go out late at night with

00:38:47

his gun and he would claim he was

00:38:49

looking for poachers on the property but

00:38:51

his mistress there Emily was like he

00:38:53

would just go trudging off with his gun

00:38:55

and it was like not something he did she

00:38:57

was like I think he was losing it yeah

00:38:59

and on the morning of November 28th he

00:39:02

instructed a local farm hand to please

00:39:05

lay a path of straw from Russia's

00:39:09

Homestead on his least land all the way

00:39:12

towards the fields behind Stanford Hall

00:39:14

that's damn field Hall excuse me

00:39:17

and he said he so and he was like you do

00:39:21

that while me and my family go into town

00:39:22

for the afternoon and later it was

00:39:25

revealed that he had actually instructed

00:39:27

this young farmhand to scatter the hay

00:39:29

so that it would make sure not to leave

00:39:32

Footprints when he walked from his place

00:39:35

to the sandfield hall I had a feeling

00:39:37

that's where you were going with that

00:39:38

now when they came back from an

00:39:41

afternoon out Emily Sanford his mistress

00:39:43

began making dinner and Rush told her

00:39:47

there's just time for me to go into the

00:39:49

garden and fire off my gun

00:39:52

and she was like what at what can you

00:39:55

just eat my dinner [ __ ] yeah

00:39:57

like what he didn't say what he was

00:39:59

shooting at or why he was going out to

00:40:01

shoot yeah like there's there's time and

00:40:04

she was like nah dinner's ready

00:40:06

[ __ ] he's like oh [ __ ] Emily I

00:40:10

can shoot my gun

00:40:12

for like a little bit couple minutes

00:40:15

there's like time he's like a child

00:40:17

she's like where though and he's like in

00:40:18

the garden and she's like at one he's

00:40:20

like nothing in particular just shooting

00:40:21

just shoot just shooting sake that's all

00:40:24

weird so she was just like

00:40:27

hi Captain like out you go and when he

00:40:30

came back a short time later for dinner

00:40:32

Emily noticed he seemed very irritated

00:40:35

much more irritated than when he had

00:40:38

left and like get out of there babe and

00:40:40

yeah and so he also brought up this

00:40:43

weird story he said I've been thinking a

00:40:45

good deal about the story we read the

00:40:47

other day about the Scottish chief

00:40:49

and what he was referring to was a

00:40:51

well-known parable about the Battle of

00:40:53

Bennett Burn by author Robert Bruce okay

00:40:56

and he said I've tried several times and

00:40:59

the next time perhaps I shall be

00:41:00

successful

00:41:02

um and he was she was like what the [ __ ]

00:41:04

are you talking about and she later said

00:41:07

that he appeared extremely agitated and

00:41:11

she supposed him to be in tears

00:41:14

though she couldn't understand why he

00:41:16

was rambling crying crying it's almost

00:41:20

in tears like very agitated he was like

00:41:22

what the [ __ ] going on or Emily

00:41:25

sometime between 7 and 8 PM just after

00:41:28

they finished dinner James stood up from

00:41:31

the table

00:41:32

didn't say a [ __ ] word but just went

00:41:34

into his bedroom dressed himself in a

00:41:37

dark cloak

00:41:38

donde mask to cover his face no

00:41:42

then armed himself with a pistol and

00:41:45

just left the house without saying

00:41:47

anything put a mask and Emily just

00:41:49

watched this entire thing which I'm like

00:41:51

Emily get out of here come on girl yeah

00:41:53

you gotta do something here

00:41:55

so he just leaves and puts on like a

00:41:58

disguise like a dark cloak a mask that's

00:42:01

scary which I guess the mask was like a

00:42:03

face mask with like whiskers on it or

00:42:05

some [ __ ] what yeah

00:42:08

now that happens on the property where

00:42:11

are we and at sandfield Hall the Jeremy

00:42:14

family

00:42:15

had just finished up dinner some sources

00:42:18

say they were having a small dinner

00:42:19

party but either way they just finished

00:42:22

up dinner a little before 8 pm and Isaac

00:42:26

had just hung out at the dinner table

00:42:28

and Isaac Jr and his wife went to the

00:42:31

Parlor for tea okay and the like workers

00:42:34

began clearing dishes and all that fun

00:42:36

stuff and Isaac senior got up left the

00:42:39

room and he went out onto the porch to

00:42:41

get some air which is something he

00:42:43

literally always did after dinner it was

00:42:45

a very routine thing for him this was

00:42:48

almost like a ritual after dinner for

00:42:49

him now having been employed by the

00:42:52

family for many many years James

00:42:55

Bloomfield Rush would have definitely

00:42:58

known that at this same time every night

00:43:01

he'd be after dinner he would be out

00:43:03

there on the porch a little before 8 P.M

00:43:07

I'm scared so as soon as Isaac senior

00:43:10

went in out the door and done to the

00:43:12

porch Rush stepped out from the Shadows

00:43:15

raised a pistol and fired a single shot

00:43:17

into his chest without saying a word

00:43:20

the bullet passed through his heart and

00:43:22

knocked him onto his back and he died

00:43:24

instantly oh that's so awful uh then

00:43:28

James Rush entered the house from the

00:43:30

side door and passed the main staircase

00:43:33

and as he did he dropped two pieces of

00:43:36

paper from his cloak

00:43:37

so he was messy already okay and he

00:43:41

moved through the house and was spotted

00:43:42

by the butler who was frightened by the

00:43:45

sight of a gun and ran back into the

00:43:47

darkened hallway and hid himself out of

00:43:49

you because he was scared imagine yeah

00:43:52

now as James Rush passed through one

00:43:54

door into the main hall Isaac Jr came

00:43:57

out of the Parlor and they just looked

00:44:00

at each other in silence and then Rush

00:44:02

raised the gun and shot him in the chest

00:44:05

oh he dropped to the floor and he also

00:44:08

died instantly oh my God now obviously

00:44:11

people are hearing the sounds of

00:44:13

gunshots happening so Isaac Jr's wife

00:44:16

ran into the hall from The Parlor by the

00:44:18

way she's pregnant I yeah I thought you

00:44:20

had said that and just missed Rush as he

00:44:24

entered into the dining room from there

00:44:26

she found her husband's body and she

00:44:29

screamed so her scream Drew one of the

00:44:33

maids Eliza chasney or Chesney it's both

00:44:36

it's seen both ways in different uh

00:44:37

sources she ran into the hall and the

00:44:41

two of them are standing in the hallway

00:44:42

freaking out and rush comes out of the

00:44:45

dining room sees the two women raises

00:44:48

the pistol and shoots twice he hit Mrs

00:44:52

Jeremy in the arm she's the pregnant

00:44:53

wife oh my God and hit Eliza Chesney in

00:44:56

the leg

00:44:57

both of them fell to the floor and they

00:44:59

both tried to pretend they were dead oh

00:45:02

now he figured he had killed the whole

00:45:04

family right so he left the house

00:45:06

through the same side door that he went

00:45:08

into fled into the fields and made his

00:45:11

way back to his Homestead remember via

00:45:13

that hay covered path that had been laid

00:45:16

out

00:45:17

um but as he did this he's he was

00:45:20

spotted by several workers who lived on

00:45:22

the estate and had been drawn out of

00:45:24

their homes on the on the property by

00:45:26

the sound noise of gunshots and screams

00:45:29

does he still have his cloak and his

00:45:30

mask on he does they all saw black

00:45:33

cloaked man escaping into the fields

00:45:34

okay now but the thing would be Emily

00:45:37

saw him put on that cloak right and so

00:45:40

fearing the house was being you know

00:45:42

attacked by the same kind of like we're

00:45:45

gonna take over [ __ ] a stable hand made

00:45:47

his way to the edge of the property swam

00:45:50

across the moat to get to the house

00:45:52

because it does have a moot hell yeah

00:45:54

and went to the nearby Home of a man

00:45:56

named Coleman who sent the message to

00:45:59

the Norwich police and they you know let

00:46:01

them know what had happened

00:46:02

so after sending help for help from

00:46:05

Norwich Mr Coleman the neighbor gathered

00:46:08

other neighbors and they all made their

00:46:10

way to Stanfield Hall to just try to

00:46:12

help however they could

00:46:14

um and when they got there they found

00:46:16

Isaac senior dead on the front porch

00:46:18

Isaac Jr dead on the floor in the main

00:46:21

hallway just outside the house and

00:46:23

nearby they found Eliza chastney who was

00:46:26

wounded in the leg and by that time the

00:46:29

other workers had carried Isaac Jr's

00:46:31

wife upstairs to a bedroom and were

00:46:34

doing their best to treat her wound in

00:46:36

her arm because she was bleeding heavily

00:46:38

in the uh the up of the upper part of

00:46:40

her arm was really badly damaged

00:46:43

um

00:46:44

and They Carried both men into the

00:46:46

Parlor both the bodies of the two Isaac

00:46:49

Jeremy men

00:46:51

um and they noticed singed clothing

00:46:53

around the bullet wounds which indicated

00:46:56

that they had been shot at pretty close

00:46:58

range

00:47:00

um although they had been through a wild

00:47:02

ordeal Isaac Jr's wife and Mrs chastney

00:47:05

both both said they thought they

00:47:08

recognized the shooter and they said

00:47:10

it's James Bloomfield Rush how do you

00:47:12

think they knew so he was wearing a fake

00:47:14

beard a mask and a cloak but they said

00:47:18

that they knew his body type and they

00:47:21

knew how he held certain things and how

00:47:23

he walked and yeah and they were like we

00:47:25

know that that was him he had like a

00:47:27

specific way about him so when the

00:47:29

telegraph was sent to the Norwich police

00:47:31

it included a note from the local

00:47:33

magistrate Mr Cann instructing them to

00:47:36

apprehend James Bloomfield Rush damn no

00:47:39

police made their way to Stanfield tall

00:47:41

while Rush ran to his house a little

00:47:44

after 9 pm knocked on the door to be let

00:47:47

in by Emily there was no light in the

00:47:50

front room because you have to remember

00:47:51

this is 1800s it's not like they flicked

00:47:53

on the light

00:47:54

um and so Emily knew only knew that it

00:47:57

was James entering the house didn't see

00:47:59

how he was dressed or what he was

00:48:01

carrying she said he went right upstairs

00:48:02

directly upstairs and when he came back

00:48:05

downstairs he wasn't wearing any boots

00:48:07

any outdoor attire and he instructed her

00:48:10

to light a fire and go to bed

00:48:13

okay but before she retired for the

00:48:16

evening Rush said quote if any inquiries

00:48:19

made about me say I was not out more

00:48:22

than 10 minutes

00:48:24

so a few hours later Emily was awoken by

00:48:27

a loud banging at the door and opened it

00:48:29

find Rush

00:48:31

who is now coming back he had left okay

00:48:35

and he was trembling and seemed very

00:48:37

upset and he said now you be firm and

00:48:40

remember that I was only out 10 minutes

00:48:42

oh he told her again this time she said

00:48:45

in a much more aggressive tone so he has

00:48:48

now returned at 9 00 PM after murdering

00:48:50

this whole family for trying to

00:48:53

he has taken off everything that he wore

00:48:55

he's come downstairs told her to light a

00:48:58

fire and to go directly to bed don't

00:49:00

pass go go to bed so she was like cool

00:49:02

I'll just go up but and as he does this

00:49:04

he tells her I was out 10 minutes if

00:49:06

anyone asks and she's like got it she

00:49:07

goes to bed then hours later is awoken

00:49:10

by banging at the door it's him arriving

00:49:13

back from somewhere I thought you had

00:49:15

misspoke I was like wait what he had

00:49:17

gone out again and then he had said by

00:49:20

the way remember I was only gone 10

00:49:22

minutes but more aggressive and she's

00:49:23

like what the [ __ ] is going on so by the

00:49:26

morning police had completely surrounded

00:49:28

the rush Homestead and as soon as they

00:49:30

saw the first Lantern lit inside they

00:49:33

summoned a stable boy named Savory and

00:49:35

told her to call Rush to the door

00:49:38

so as you know Rush of course said what

00:49:42

like I go how could I ever be at fault

00:49:45

for the Mayhem that happened at

00:49:46

Stanfield Hall and he said good God I

00:49:48

hope they do not think it was me

00:49:51

and he said this to Emily in front of

00:49:53

everybody and he said it is rather a

00:49:55

serious charge yeah and Emily's like

00:49:58

what the [ __ ] am I supposed to say here

00:49:59

and upstairs in the main bedroom

00:50:01

investigators started searching and they

00:50:04

found two guns in a closet along with

00:50:06

Russia's black cloak and boots and both

00:50:10

of them were wet like he had been

00:50:12

walking through a dewy feel like I'm

00:50:13

glad you're dumb but I thought when he

00:50:15

left again it was to discard those

00:50:17

things and in front of the police they

00:50:20

heard Rush say to Emily I'm accused of

00:50:22

murdering Jeremy and his son and he said

00:50:25

but you and savory can clear me for he

00:50:27

washed my boots at half past five and

00:50:29

you know I didn't go out

00:50:31

so now he's trying to get her to lie for

00:50:34

him and in all the confusion and just

00:50:37

Mayhem that was happening here and

00:50:39

probably the stress Emily had forgotten

00:50:42

exactly what she was supposed to say oh

00:50:44

no so she told the investigators that

00:50:46

yes James had gone out the previous

00:50:48

evening because at first he had told her

00:50:50

to say that yeah yeah

00:50:52

but he was and then she said but he was

00:50:54

only out for about a quarter of an hour

00:50:57

so she's added a little time on it

00:51:00

and Rush is listening to this and he

00:51:03

stops her and says I was not out more

00:51:05

than 10 minutes and you know I had my

00:51:07

slip shoes on so he's like I was not

00:51:09

wearing those boots and I was only out

00:51:11

for 10 minutes

00:51:12

and for some reason and thank goodness

00:51:16

Emily got a little Brave and she said I

00:51:21

don't know if you had or not I did not

00:51:23

see you put your boots on she said [ __ ]

00:51:25

you so she said in this game I'm not

00:51:26

gonna lie for you she said I didn't see

00:51:28

you put them on good for her

00:51:30

so during questioning James Rush

00:51:32

repeated his story several times over

00:51:34

saying that's Emily was his Alibi but

00:51:38

he's he definitely acknowledged that he

00:51:40

and the Jeremy family had not been on

00:51:41

good terms in recent years he was like

00:51:43

I'm not gonna lie about that yeah he

00:51:44

said I have no doubt I shall be

00:51:46

suspected because we have been on such

00:51:47

bad terms but he said but lately the old

00:51:50

one and I have been more friendly but

00:51:52

the young one was my greatest enemy

00:51:57

either way both of them are dead my guy

00:51:59

and when they had no more questions

00:52:02

James Bloomfield Rush was taken into

00:52:04

custody he was transported to the local

00:52:06

jail winmen him I think it's windmen him

00:52:08

Bridewell and he was questioned further

00:52:11

by the magistrates

00:52:12

now

00:52:14

Rush was pretty much identified as the

00:52:17

shooter by like many people

00:52:19

um a traditional investigation proved

00:52:21

kind of unnecessary at that point but

00:52:24

once the bodies had been removed from

00:52:26

Stanfield Hall in the initial chaos had

00:52:28

kind of subsided police officers did

00:52:30

begin an investigation into the house

00:52:33

and that's when they discovered the

00:52:35

papers that had dropped out of Russia's

00:52:37

cloaked I forgot about those yeah he's a

00:52:41

mess and the two papers appeared to be

00:52:43

the covers of a book and on the back of

00:52:45

one was written a note

00:52:47

this note said there are seven of us

00:52:49

here three of us outside and four inside

00:52:51

the hall all armed as you see us too if

00:52:55

any of you servants offered to leave the

00:52:57

premises or to follow you will be shot

00:52:59

dead therefore all of you keep in the

00:53:02

servants Hall and you nor anyone else

00:53:04

will take any arm any harm for we are

00:53:07

only come to take possession of the

00:53:09

Stanfield Hall property okay so they

00:53:11

were going to try to make it look like

00:53:12

another Seas kind of thing yeah and it

00:53:14

was signed Thomas Jeremy the owner

00:53:20

oh oh okay yeah that guy yeah I know

00:53:22

it's hard no no no I don't believe you

00:53:24

for being like for a second I was like

00:53:26

no because remember they had that whole

00:53:28

plan Thomas and John were going to take

00:53:30

it out yeah so he went against the plan

00:53:32

entirely once sounds like he took it a

00:53:34

little into his own hands sounds like he

00:53:36

went a little whoa so news of the

00:53:38

murders were reported in the press a day

00:53:40

or two or later and The Sensational

00:53:42

language being indicative of Isaac

00:53:44

Jeremy's important role in the community

00:53:46

so the times London's paper of record

00:53:50

um described the killings as the most

00:53:52

atrocious murders ever perpetrated in

00:53:54

Norfolk or perhaps in any other English

00:53:56

County I don't know so obviously his

00:53:58

position is what's making this the most

00:54:00

atrocious of course uh similarly the

00:54:04

Liverpool Mercury referred to the scene

00:54:06

at the hall as the Dreadful and

00:54:08

mysterious tragedy oh my God now the

00:54:11

coroner began his examination of the

00:54:13

bodies and the police in Norwich shifted

00:54:15

their focus from Stanfield Hall to now

00:54:18

James Rush's Homestead the initial

00:54:21

search of the home turned up a clearly

00:54:23

wet cloak and a set of clearly wet

00:54:25

booths

00:54:26

also a pair of recently fired guns which

00:54:29

suggested that Rush could have been

00:54:30

involved but the discoveries made on the

00:54:33

second search left little doubt that he

00:54:35

was responsible in the closet in

00:54:38

Russia's bedroom investigators found a

00:54:40

woman's black wig and long face Veil

00:54:43

hidden in a box at the back of the

00:54:45

closet that's weird in the same closet

00:54:47

they also found forged documents that

00:54:51

Rush had used to convince Thomas Jeremy

00:54:53

and John larner to participate in the

00:54:55

crimes with him that's a big yikes yeah

00:54:58

another search of the home the

00:55:01

investigators found additional disguises

00:55:03

including a black wig of a particular

00:55:05

make with mustachios and whiskers coming

00:55:07

round and under the chin pistachios you

00:55:10

say mustachios so we had all these

00:55:14

[ __ ] disguises hidden in his closet

00:55:16

like a weirdo yeah that's creepy maybe

00:55:18

he's just a Halloween I don't think so

00:55:20

now on November 30th a jury was brought

00:55:24

together for the coroner's inquest and

00:55:26

they viewed the bodies and heard the

00:55:28

results of the coroner's examination and

00:55:31

they also heard a number of from a

00:55:32

number of the staff who was at Stanfield

00:55:34

Hall on the night of the murders uh the

00:55:36

butler who hid when he first saw them

00:55:38

James Watson told the jury at the time I

00:55:41

saw the man passing the corner it

00:55:43

occurred to me that it was Mr rush I

00:55:46

knew Mr Rush perfectly well the man I

00:55:48

saw was like Mr Russian size height and

00:55:51

in his walk

00:55:53

and Watson also told the jury that Rush

00:55:55

was in the habit of entering the house

00:55:57

through the servant store at the side of

00:55:59

the building where the killer had also

00:56:01

entered right and he knew that he said

00:56:03

the reason that this is so pertinent is

00:56:06

he said that the door was never locked

00:56:08

before 9 pm oh and he knew that he said

00:56:11

the cook who was also at the estate that

00:56:14

evening also said a similar thing he

00:56:16

said the moment I saw the man it struck

00:56:19

me it was Mr Rush who had very

00:56:21

frequently within the last five months

00:56:22

been at the hall the man was short and

00:56:25

stout

00:56:26

he held his head a little on one side

00:56:29

sorry I just have to answer this

00:56:32

hello

00:56:34

The Moment I Saw the man it struck me it

00:56:36

was Mr Rush who had very frequently

00:56:38

within the last five months been at the

00:56:40

hall the man was short and stout he held

00:56:43

his head a little on one side just in

00:56:45

the way Mr Rush carries it so he has a

00:56:48

very particular way of walking and

00:56:49

standing in my own mind I think it was a

00:56:52

it is impossible I can be mistaken in my

00:56:54

opinion I had such an opportunity of

00:56:56

seeing his person that I cannot be

00:56:58

mistaken although I cannot from not

00:57:00

having seen his face positively swear it

00:57:02

was him okay

00:57:04

so a third witness was a sheriff's

00:57:07

officer named Mr bacon who hell yeah

00:57:11

so gave evidence and this is a quote

00:57:13

gave evidence as to the certain

00:57:15

expressions of Mr Rush indicating

00:57:17

revengeful feeling towards Mr Jeremy

00:57:20

now the most important testimony came

00:57:22

from Emily oh

00:57:25

um so she quickly abandoned any kind of

00:57:28

Alibi that he tried to force on her

00:57:30

under questioning from police she

00:57:32

refused to provide that alibi and

00:57:35

initially she told investigators she had

00:57:37

been quote reading a book which

00:57:39

interested her very much and so she did

00:57:41

not keep a very good accurate account of

00:57:44

the time okay

00:57:45

so she said she couldn't be sure how

00:57:47

long he had been out of the house but

00:57:48

they pressed her and she caved and told

00:57:51

investigators Rush quote was absent from

00:57:53

the house all the evening of the murder

00:57:55

and when he came home he appeared to be

00:57:57

in a state of great agitation and rushed

00:58:00

into the house saying he was very ill

00:58:02

now according to Emily after he had gone

00:58:04

into his bedroom she peered Through the

00:58:07

Keyhole oh and witnessed him removing

00:58:10

the various pieces of Disguise because

00:58:12

remember when she he came home she said

00:58:14

she couldn't see him very well because

00:58:15

there was no light he just rushed

00:58:17

upstairs right but she looked through

00:58:19

that Keyhole and saw him taking off all

00:58:22

the pieces of the disguise and she

00:58:23

explained that he had pretended to go

00:58:25

out looking for poachers that evening

00:58:27

though she very much doubted that that

00:58:29

was what he was doing when he left the

00:58:30

house

00:58:32

so her statement was given to the police

00:58:34

and the magistrate asked whether Rush

00:58:36

had any questions or anything to say in

00:58:38

response and he said no she has said

00:58:42

enough to hang me already oh that was

00:58:45

his response damn she got him so during

00:58:48

the inquest the corner happily reported

00:58:50

that both women were expected to survive

00:58:52

that's good and despite the severity of

00:58:55

the wounds to their arm and leg Yeah he

00:58:58

hoped that they would be able to avoid

00:59:00

any amputation wow a few days later

00:59:02

though the situation definitely changed

00:59:04

for Mrs Jeremy who shot in the left arm

00:59:06

above the elbow there was so much damage

00:59:09

it had shattered the bone in several

00:59:11

places and the surgeons had to amputate

00:59:14

her arm near the shoulder as she's

00:59:16

pregnant pregnant holy [ __ ] now after

00:59:19

hearing all the evidence the jury left

00:59:21

the inquest just for a little bit of

00:59:23

time to discuss what they heard and they

00:59:25

returned with a verdict of Will from

00:59:27

willful murder against James Bloomfield

00:59:29

rush and a warrant was issued for his

00:59:32

arrest as well as the arrest of a key

00:59:35

witness Emily Sanford why did she get

00:59:38

arrested they were already in custody so

00:59:40

the warrant went out

00:59:42

um just because she was there and she

00:59:43

had uh initially lied ah now

00:59:47

on March 29 1849 the trial began at the

00:59:51

court of the sizes at Norwich Castle

00:59:53

which was presided over yeah in a castle

00:59:57

by magistrate Baron Rolfe

01:00:00

um there was a ton of news coverage

01:00:02

about this a lot of public interest so

01:00:04

it was packed in fact admittance into

01:00:07

the courtroom was by ticket only wow and

01:00:09

by 8 AM it was like packed full damn

01:00:12

um acting on behalf of the crown were

01:00:15

Sergeant biles Prendergast and Evans uh

01:00:19

James Bloomfield Rush was acting as his

01:00:22

own attorney oh no honey now in addition

01:00:25

to testimony the jury was going to see

01:00:27

evidence that included you know a ton of

01:00:29

stuff but some of them were the forge

01:00:31

documents the drawings of the property

01:00:34

floor plans scale models of Stanfield

01:00:36

Hall and Russia's Farmhouse they'd all

01:00:40

been created for the occasion and before

01:00:43

opening statements were given the

01:00:44

charges were read for the court and this

01:00:47

is when Rush was asked to step forward

01:00:49

and repeat his plea and he replied not

01:00:52

guilty he was described as Resolute and

01:00:55

set but his hands trebled excessively

01:00:57

not only at first but during the day

01:01:00

reporters also said his shoulders

01:01:02

support a short bull neck on which a

01:01:04

large and massive head which a

01:01:06

craniologist would declare indicative of

01:01:08

the possession of strong animal passions

01:01:10

and considerable intellectual power is

01:01:13

set for is firmly set in such a way as

01:01:16

to render it rather difficult for its

01:01:17

owner to look straight before him

01:01:19

so his head was slightly crooked

01:01:21

slightly to one side just like the

01:01:23

staffer said yeah the person who came in

01:01:25

and killed all those people had yup now

01:01:27

during the jury selection the name John

01:01:29

Beals was called and the prosecution

01:01:32

objected and this potential juror was

01:01:35

dismissed and in response to this Rush

01:01:38

interrupted to ask why the man had been

01:01:40

dismissed and the judge explained it was

01:01:42

because the prosecution objected and

01:01:44

Rush said I wish to make one observation

01:01:47

to the jury I shall not challenge any of

01:01:49

them but I hope if any of them have any

01:01:51

unfair influence in this case they will

01:01:53

retire of themselves

01:01:56

so what he had wanted was for his

01:01:57

comments to the jury to emphasize his

01:02:00

cooperation and how he wanted this whole

01:02:01

thing to be fair yeah

01:02:03

um you know because he's so innocent he

01:02:05

just wants all this to go the right way

01:02:07

but

01:02:09

he didn't understand how the process

01:02:11

worked which just made him seem dumb

01:02:13

yeah because that's like that's that's

01:02:15

what they're doing right now exactly and

01:02:17

it's like

01:02:18

so now you're gonna defend yourself so

01:02:20

now you've already stepped into this

01:02:22

looking very unprepared with this whole

01:02:24

thing yeah so that's not good

01:02:27

and this was demonstrated again just a

01:02:29

few minutes later because he asked the

01:02:30

judge my Lord may I make a few

01:02:32

observations before the council makes

01:02:34

his opening speech and the role for

01:02:36

Applied this is not the right time to do

01:02:38

that you'll have an opportunity

01:02:39

Hereafter yeah so he doesn't even know

01:02:42

how this all works he's going to need an

01:02:43

attorney yeah

01:02:45

so they did the jury selection and

01:02:47

Sergeant biles took his place in front

01:02:49

of the courtroom and began his opening

01:02:51

remarks so the prosecutor laid out all

01:02:54

the evidence against James rush and said

01:02:56

about the year 1844 the late Mr Jeremy

01:02:59

Advanced to Mr Rush considerable

01:03:01

considerable sums of money upon the

01:03:04

potash Farm or potash Farm who knows the

01:03:06

balance of which was coming due just

01:03:08

days before the murders occurred okay so

01:03:10

he was gonna have to pay this debt days

01:03:12

before the murders happened

01:03:15

um and lacking the money to pay what was

01:03:17

owed to Jeremy Sergeant biles explained

01:03:19

that Rush had intended to kill the

01:03:20

Jeremy family to avoid to avoid any of

01:03:24

the negative consequences of his debt

01:03:26

that makes sense now as evidence of

01:03:29

motive and intent Sergeant biles read

01:03:31

aloud from the letters exchanged between

01:03:33

rush and his son sent just after the

01:03:35

Civil Trial between Jeremy and rush for

01:03:37

unpaid fees and also showed the forged

01:03:40

documents intended to mislead the jury

01:03:42

as to as to who was the rightful heir of

01:03:45

the Jeremy estate and the ownership and

01:03:47

like who should take ownership of

01:03:49

Stanfield Hall those had been discovered

01:03:52

like we said hidden in a box in Russia's

01:03:54

closet suspicious Sergeant biles told

01:03:58

the jury now gentlemen I will call your

01:04:00

attention to the contents of this

01:04:01

pamphlet as showing you two things the

01:04:03

state of the prisoner's mind and that he

01:04:05

can contemplated taking some steps with

01:04:08

reference to the claim of these persons

01:04:09

to the Stanfield Hall property but I

01:04:12

shall also put in a letter put in letter

01:04:14

in the handwriting of the prisoner in

01:04:16

order to show his feelings towards the

01:04:18

late Mr Jeremy

01:04:20

so as far as the prosecution was

01:04:22

concerned the case was pretty simple

01:04:24

against Rush he owed a ton of money to

01:04:26

Jeremy and he couldn't pay

01:04:29

rather than find a way to get the money

01:04:31

or try to arrange some sort of better

01:04:32

deal he just came up with a plan to kill

01:04:35

the Jeremy family conspire with Thomas

01:04:37

Jeremy and John Lerner to forge the

01:04:39

documents and it would ultimately

01:04:41

benefit everybody involved it's pretty

01:04:42

black and white to me yeah

01:04:44

his evidence to support this theory was

01:04:47

pretty strong and they found the

01:04:48

recently fired guns in Russia's bedroom

01:04:50

closet along with the boots the cloak

01:04:52

the disguises all of that and finally

01:04:55

most importantly they had Emily's

01:04:57

testimony right which not only

01:04:59

contradicted what Russia was saying

01:05:01

about that night

01:05:03

yeah it led directly to a lot of the

01:05:06

evidence that was being presented in

01:05:08

court including the forge documents that

01:05:10

were hidden in a very secret location

01:05:12

so once the prosecution had finished

01:05:14

presenting their case James Bloomfield

01:05:16

Rush Rose and began

01:05:18

what what became a 14-hour speech in

01:05:23

this defense

01:05:25

14 hours how do you he like

01:05:28

consecutively yes

01:05:31

14 hours how do you even talk that long

01:05:35

and this was described by the press as

01:05:39

quote without making any impression

01:05:41

whatsoever in his favor his address was

01:05:45

his address was full of repetitions and

01:05:47

everything really material might have

01:05:49

been said in a quarter of the time

01:05:51

what so he just [ __ ] rambled for 14

01:05:54

hours 14 hours which pissed everyone off

01:05:58

unbelievable yeah at that point I'd be

01:06:01

like well you're a girl yeah no matter

01:06:03

what because you're guilty of being an

01:06:04

[ __ ] yeah now in his version of the

01:06:06

events he was quote Innocent but

01:06:09

admitted that he knew something about

01:06:10

was about about to take place at the

01:06:12

hall before the night of the murders

01:06:14

according to him a day before he had

01:06:17

been approached by Jeremy and larner

01:06:19

Thomas Jeremy and uh John Lerner who

01:06:22

wanted to enlist him in their plan to

01:06:25

take Stanfield tall by force okay just

01:06:28

as they attempted to do years earlier he

01:06:30

was like remember they've done this

01:06:31

before of course they're going to do it

01:06:33

again but he said no no I won't help you

01:06:36

with that now he's flipped it and the

01:06:38

following evening he had gone out after

01:06:40

dinner to check the grounds for poachers

01:06:42

as he obviously did all the time even

01:06:44

though Emily was like he didn't do that

01:06:46

all the time but when he got to the edge

01:06:48

of his property he felt ill and decided

01:06:50

to turn back and then he heard a pistol

01:06:54

go off and then a second shot and it

01:06:56

caused him to run back into his house

01:06:58

okay now he said after his so after his

01:07:02

rambling and exhaustive speech he began

01:07:06

making several complaints to the judge

01:07:08

and the jury about among other things

01:07:10

the way he was treated in the Press by

01:07:13

the and by the magistrates and by 8 PM

01:07:16

that evening the judge had finally had

01:07:18

enough and adjourned the court

01:07:20

it was like I'm done listening I'm

01:07:22

surprised they let him go on that long

01:07:23

before doing that yeah and they

01:07:25

adjourned for a few days they didn't

01:07:26

come back for a few days and then when

01:07:28

they did Rush called a bunch of

01:07:30

witnesses all of whom provided testimony

01:07:33

that was irrelevant

01:07:36

pretty contradictory to what would help

01:07:38

him and all none of them were

01:07:41

contradictory to the evidence that was

01:07:43

presented by the prosecution so none of

01:07:45

it was wild because it's black and white

01:07:47

here so Rush rested his case after six

01:07:51

days and

01:07:52

um uh judge Baron Rolfe began

01:07:54

summarizing the case for the court and

01:07:57

according to the press the process was

01:07:58

repeatedly interrupted by The Prisoner

01:08:00

who attempted to correct him

01:08:03

and to give different versions of the

01:08:05

evidence wow and finally he dismissed

01:08:07

the jury to review and deliberate

01:08:10

now given how Sensational the crimes had

01:08:13

been and how crazy this trial had been

01:08:15

the audience in the court they all

01:08:18

waited like they wanted to hear this

01:08:19

then they thought they were going to

01:08:21

like wait for a while to hear this like

01:08:23

they thought all this was going to build

01:08:24

up but the jury returned just five

01:08:27

minutes later with a guilty verdict of

01:08:29

course because they were like [ __ ] yeah

01:08:31

I [ __ ] that Rush was pissed and yelled I

01:08:35

am innocent all the same and God

01:08:37

Almighty knows it

01:08:39

so I don't know when you got there man

01:08:41

everyone went into a tizzy but order had

01:08:44

to be restored and the judge addressed

01:08:46

Rush directly he said James Bloomfield

01:08:48

Rush after a trial unusually protracted

01:08:51

you have found you've been found guilty

01:08:53

that of the charge of willful murder a

01:08:56

crime the highest any human being can

01:08:58

perpetrate on another the deepest under

01:09:00

any circumstances of extenuation but I

01:09:03

regret to say that in your case there is

01:09:05

everything which could add a deeper die

01:09:07

to guilt the most horrible it appears

01:09:09

from letters which you yourself put into

01:09:12

in that to the father of the unfortunate

01:09:14

victim of your malice you owe a deep

01:09:16

debt of gratitude you commenced a career

01:09:18

of crime by endeavoring to cheat your

01:09:20

landlord you followed It Up by making

01:09:22

the unfortunate girl whom you'd had

01:09:24

subdued the tool whereby you should

01:09:26

commit forgery and having done that you

01:09:29

terminated your guilty career by the

01:09:31

murder of the son and Grandson of your

01:09:33

friend and benefactor more cannot be

01:09:36

said

01:09:36

it unfortunately sometimes happens that

01:09:39

great guilt is too nearly connected with

01:09:41

something that is calculated to Dazzle

01:09:43

the mind but unfortunately in your case

01:09:46

you have made Vice as loatham as

01:09:48

loathsome as it is terrible whoa

01:09:51

beautiful very poetic very poetic Rush

01:09:56

immediately tried to argue with the

01:09:57

judge again you know I get the final

01:09:59

word and the judge cut him off and said

01:10:02

you have been convicted on testimony so

01:10:05

clear the observation and comment are

01:10:07

unnecessary wow so he's like I don't

01:10:09

want to hear [ __ ] shut up it's black and

01:10:11

white that you did this and with that he

01:10:13

was removed from the court and taken

01:10:15

back to his cell

01:10:16

now after the reading of the verdict

01:10:18

James Bloomfield Rush was sentenced to

01:10:21

be hanged on the grounds of Norwich

01:10:23

Castle on April 23 1849 and it was

01:10:26

reported that while he was waiting for

01:10:28

the execution date he sat quietly in his

01:10:30

cell and didn't have any visitors he

01:10:32

wouldn't let anyone in damn

01:10:34

um but but the night before his

01:10:36

execution he received a short note from

01:10:38

one of his children oh that's sad I

01:10:40

forgot that he had kids yeah on April

01:10:42

23rd the excitement that it surrounded

01:10:45

the initial trial seemed to have come

01:10:47

back because now we got ourselves an

01:10:49

1800s execution and you know people love

01:10:51

that [ __ ] so apparently

01:10:54

um crowds of individuals from both sexes

01:10:57

had been hurrying the throughout the

01:10:59

morning from all parts of the county and

01:11:01

even far beyond it to the awful scene of

01:11:03

ignominous death wow that was from the

01:11:07

um the Caledonian Mercury paper in 1849.

01:11:11

so a little after 12 p.m he was let out

01:11:13

of his cell and he walked past all the

01:11:15

onlookers and led to the Gallows and

01:11:19

in the days leading up to this he had

01:11:21

tried to persuade anyone who listened

01:11:23

that he was innocent but it nobody

01:11:25

believed him

01:11:27

um and because of that when he asked if

01:11:28

he had any when he was asked if he had

01:11:30

anything to say before his execution he

01:11:33

said no

01:11:34

and all he did was simply repeat the

01:11:36

Lord's Prayer to himself quietly while

01:11:39

the lever was pulled and the floor

01:11:40

dropped out beneath him and he was

01:11:42

killed instantly wow he had no family

01:11:45

member willing to claim his body

01:11:49

yeah James Bloomfield Rush was buried on

01:11:52

the grounds of Norwich Castle

01:11:54

and after his death the Press reported

01:11:56

thus was closed the life of him whose

01:11:58

murderous deeds and other Wicked acts

01:12:00

have excited Universal abhorrence and of

01:12:03

whom it may be said England never

01:12:05

furnished his parallel

01:12:08

um that's haunting so just like as a

01:12:10

clothing a closing thing here

01:12:12

um a death mask of James Bloomfield Rush

01:12:15

is uh on display at the welcome

01:12:18

collection in well in London I saw that

01:12:21

yeah

01:12:22

um Staffordshire potteries produced

01:12:25

collectible figures of Rush and Sanford

01:12:28

Emily his mistress I don't know about

01:12:30

that plus the locations of the farm

01:12:32

their Homestead and Stanfield Hall in

01:12:34

Norwich Castle so you could get

01:12:37

collectible collectible figures of these

01:12:39

things interesting um he was also Rush

01:12:42

himself was made into a wax figure and

01:12:44

was at Madame Tussauds wow because

01:12:46

remember there was a time when Madame

01:12:48

Tussauds had a chamber of Horrors

01:12:50

section we had a couple of other people

01:12:52

that have been in that section yeah from

01:12:55

long long ago like 1800s that's creepy

01:12:58

yeah they had a chamber of horror

01:12:59

section that would have like murderers

01:13:01

in it and like crime scenes and [ __ ] he

01:13:03

was on display in that from 1849 until

01:13:06

1971. wow yeah that's wild

01:13:10

um there were several like you know I

01:13:12

think there was a novel made about this

01:13:13

case there was um it was the inspiration

01:13:15

for a film from 1948 called Blanche for

01:13:18

Blanche Fury which starred Valerie

01:13:21

Hobson and Stuart Granger listen to that

01:13:23

and last but not least Charles Dickens

01:13:26

was very intrigued by these murders

01:13:28

random uh he was there for the execution

01:13:31

he was present for it I think I feel

01:13:33

like he's been present at other

01:13:34

restaurants Dickens loved an execution

01:13:36

yeah yeah he was he was at a couple

01:13:38

you're right yeah he went later went to

01:13:41

stanfield's uh hall because you could

01:13:43

you can still go and yeah still a house

01:13:45

I mean you I think it's like a private

01:13:47

residence now yes I don't go there don't

01:13:48

go there yeah don't do that but you

01:13:50

could before like actually go and see it

01:13:51

right right um and he called it which

01:13:54

this is such a [ __ ] talk this is a

01:13:57

poet like author when they say he called

01:13:59

it quote a grand place for a scoundrel's

01:14:02

exit

01:14:03

oh that's that's nice you got a grand

01:14:07

place for a Scoundrels exit

01:14:10

that's deep what a what a thought and

01:14:13

that is the story of The Murders At

01:14:17

Stanfield Hall wow what a what a a wild

01:14:21

ride it was because I really thought

01:14:23

like Thomas and John yeah I thought they

01:14:26

were gonna be like the the kios yeah the

01:14:29

main baddies no the big bads if you will

01:14:32

and then they flip James on his ear

01:14:33

because he's the one who stops them the

01:14:36

first time yeah and you don't think he's

01:14:37

coming back no and I had no idea and

01:14:39

then all of a sudden you're like guess

01:14:41

what like well [ __ ] James I was crazy

01:14:43

really [ __ ] me up I'm gonna I'm gonna

01:14:45

go have a glass of coffee after that's

01:14:47

me a glass piece of coffee I just said

01:14:49

just go get a glass of coffee oh nice

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Episode Highlights

Morbid Coffee Launch
Introducing two new coffee blends in collaboration with Dead Sled Coffee for National Coffee Day!
“We are launching not just one but two morbid Brews just for you weirdos!”
@ 01m 24s
October 10, 2023
The Stanfield Hall Murders
A deep dive into the historical murders at the beautiful Stanfield Hall estate in England.
“This case is called the Stanfield Hall murders.”
@ 05m 20s
October 10, 2023
The Unraveling Agreements
Rush's tenancy agreements come under scrutiny, leading to a series of unfortunate events.
“Oh, so is that like a get out of jail free card?”
@ 24m 02s
October 10, 2023
A Fatal Hunting Trip
A tragic accident occurs during a hunting trip, raising suspicions about Rush's intentions.
“Rush senior was killed by this when they were alone.”
@ 28m 06s
October 10, 2023
The Scheme to Retake Stanfield Hall
Rush plots with others to take over Stanfield Hall and eliminate Isaac Jeremy.
“Help me take over this place and give me a lower rate on myself!”
@ 36m 40s
October 10, 2023
The Ritual of the Porch
Isaac Senior had a nightly ritual of stepping out onto the porch after dinner.
“It was a very routine thing for him.”
@ 42m 45s
October 10, 2023
A Night of Horror
James Bloomfield Rush committed a shocking act of violence against the Jeremy family.
“He raised a pistol and fired a single shot into his chest without saying a word.”
@ 43m 15s
October 10, 2023
Emily's Brave Testimony
Emily Sanford abandoned Rush's alibi, revealing his true actions on the night of the murders.
“Rush was absent from the house all the evening of the murder.”
@ 57m 53s
October 10, 2023
James Bloomfield Rush's Defense
Rush delivered a 14-hour speech that failed to impress the jury, described as rambling.
“Without making any impression whatsoever in his favor”
@ 01h 05m 39s
October 10, 2023
Guilty Verdict
The jury returned a guilty verdict just five minutes after deliberation.
“The jury returned just five minutes later with a guilty verdict”
@ 01h 08m 27s
October 10, 2023
Rush's Execution
Rush was hanged on April 23, 1849, after a trial that captured public attention.
“He simply repeated the Lord's Prayer to himself quietly”
@ 01h 11m 36s
October 10, 2023

Episode Quotes

This is the most gorgeous estate I have ever seen!
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Life is a simulation, you know?
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If there's any truth in the Bible, such villainy is sure to be overtaken.
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I was only out 10 minutes.
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She has said enough to hang me already.
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You have made Vice as loathsome as it is terrible.
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Key Moments

Coffee Collaboration00:58
Shady Agreements24:02
Devious Scheming36:40
Shocking Violence43:15
Emily's Revelation57:53
Execution Day1:10:21
Final Moments1:11:36
Charles Dickens Present1:13:26

Words per Minute Over Time

Vibes Breakdown