Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses: Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial — John Shaqi
Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses: Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the TrialStanley, Edward
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Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses: Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial
Stanley, Edward
Manchester (England) -- History; Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819
Mr. SERJEANT HULLOCK: I am speaking of what you thought then. As I
understand you, you cannot recall to your recollection the impression
under which you laboured at the time you travelled home with Mr.
Markland?--I thought it a dreadful occurrence, but I hoped there were
grounds for it.
Did you mention that to Mr. Markland?--I cannot recollect.
It is very important that I should endeavour to extract from you, Mr.
Stanley, without meaning the slightest disrespect to you, every fact
within your knowledge on the subject; you say that after the meeting had
been dispersed, the first cavalry which appeared on the ground was the
Cheshire Yeomanry?--Not after the meeting had dispersed, but whilst in
progress to dispersion.
Do you mean to state now, to the best of your recollection, that the
Cheshire Yeomanry were the first cavalry advancing on the ground after
that?--It depends on what you call the ground; the Cheshire Yeomanry were
the first, after the Manchester cavalry, that advanced at the left.
Tell me, according to the best of your recollection, which of these troops
came first upon the ground?--The Cheshire Yeomanry; but you will observe
that, at this time, the disposition of the hustings occupied a good deal
of my attention, and I did not expect the others.
The Cheshire Yeomanry came over broken and uneven ground?--I cannot tell.
I observe that you use the word "apparently" twice, in answer to two
questions which were put to you, which were a repetition of the same
question--whether the two lines of constables surrounded the hustings or
not; I think you said they "apparently" did?--Apparently they did.
Mr. JUSTICE HOLROYD: Surround the hustings?--Apparently.
Mr. SERJEANT HULLOCK: Do you mean to state, then, that in your judgment
the avenue which was formed by the two lines of constables extended from
the house to the hustings?--At that time the impression on my mind was,
and it now is, that it certainly did.
But of course you won't swear that it did?--I cannot swear; I can only
speak to the impression on my mind.
In the same way that you swear to the existence of brickbats and
stones?--To the non-existence.
I think you say you saw Hunt come upon the ground?--I saw the barouche.
You saw the ladies and gentlemen both. Did you see any female?--I saw a
female.
What was her use?--I have no conception of that.
Mr. JUSTICE HOLROYD: Of what?--
Mr. SERJEANT HULLOCK: I asked whether she was for use or show.
You did not know any of the parties inside?--I had not the most distant
knowledge of them.
You had heard of Carlile?--I heard of him in London.
You have heard since he was in Manchester that day?--I have heard it
to-day, in the course of another examination. I never heard it before.
Hunt, when he saw the cavalry coming, I think, intimated his
knowledge--his cognisance of the fact--by desiring them to give three
cheers?--I could not hear.
There was some cheering given?--There was a very loud cheer.
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