Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SERIES No. XXXIX. THREE ACCOUNTS OF PETERLOO. Published by the University of Manchester at THE UNIVERSITY PRESS (H. M. MCKECHNIE, M.A., Secretary) 12 LIME GROVE, OXFORD ROAD, MANCHESTER LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON: 39 Paternoster Row, E.C.4 NEW YORK: 443-449 Fourth Avenue and Thirtieth Street BOMBAY: 336 Hornby Road CALCUTTA: 6 Old Court House Street MADRAS: 167 Mount Road [Illustration: BISHOP STANLEY 1779-1849 _From a Print lent by Lord Sheffield_ _Photo by R. H. Fletcher_ _Frontispiece_] Three Accounts OF Peterloo BY EYEWITNESSES BISHOP STANLEY LORD HYLTON JOHN BENJAMIN SMITH with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial Edited by F. A. BRUTON, M.A., Litt.D of the Manchester Grammar School MANCHESTER: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, etc. 1921 PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER No. CXL. CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction vii Bishop Stanley 1 Stanley's Account of Peterloo 10 Stanley's Evidence at the Trial in 1822 24 Sir William Jolliffe, afterwards Lord Hylton 45 Lieutenant Jolliffe's Account of Peterloo 48 John Benjamin Smith 59 Mr. J. B. Smith's Account of Peterloo 62 APPENDIX A 75 Some Relics of Peterloo:-- 1. A Banner carried at Peterloo. 2. Bamford's Cottage at Middleton. 3. Constables' Staves. 4. Head of Flagstaff. 5. Hussar's Plume. 6. Account-Book of the Relief Committee. 7. Account-Book recording amounts raised for the relief of Special Constables and their families. APPENDIX B 81 1. Note on the Casualties at Peterloo. 2. Presence of women and children at Peterloo. 3. Some gleanings from the Scrap-Books. 4. Explanation of the Contemporary Plan and Picture of Peterloo. ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Portrait of Bishop Stanley _Frontispiece_ Stanley's Plan of Peterloo 8 Nadin, the Deputy Constable _Facing_ 21 "Orator Hunt" " 27 Plan of Peterloo, compiled from the contemporary Plans and modern Street Maps 44 Portrait of Mr. John Benjamin Smith _Facing_ 59