other reference to the narrative except that made by Counsel at the Trial, and that is recorded in the Evidence which follows. * * * * * Three notes may find a place here. The first two refer to points mentioned by Stanley:-- 1. Pigot and Dean's _Manchester Directory_ for 1819 mentions: (_a_) Edmund Buxton, Builder, &c., No. 6, Mount Street, Dickinson Street. (_b_) Thomas & Matthew Pickford & Co., Carriers, Oxford Street. I do not find Mr. Buxton's "shop," which is mentioned by Stanley; nor are Pickfords described as "timber merchants," though timber may easily have been stacked in their yard. Stanley's movements on reaching Manchester are not, at a first reading, quite clear. Riding in from Alderley, he seems to have approached by way of Oxford Road, passing (as he tells us) the Manchester Yeomanry, posted at Pickford's yard. At twelve o'clock, he turned up Mosley Street (very likely to avoid the crowd which was already filling the Square) and in Mosley Street he met the contingent of Reformers coming from Ashton. He then proceeded to Mr. Buxton's _shop_, which seems to have been near the lower end of Deansgate. Not finding Mr. Buxton there, he was directed to his _residence_ in Mount Street. The shortest way to Mount Street from Alport would have taken him through the crowd. He therefore approached Mount Street "by a circuitous route to avoid the meeting" (possibly by Fleet Street and Lower Mosley Street, the route afterwards taken by the Hussars), and met Mr. Buxton on the steps of his house. Stanley evidently knew little of Manchester. He confesses in his narrative that he had not been in St. Peter's field before or since the tragedy; in his evidence he said: "I know no street," and stated that he could not locate the Friends' Meeting-house. 2. Stanley's estimate of a hundred yards, as the distance from the hustings to Mr. Buxton's house can be demonstrated to-day to be almost exactly correct. This is only one of many points in his narrative which show what a shrewd, quick, and accurate observer he was. When Mr. Hulton was asked, at the Trial, to estimate the same distance, he conjectured four hundred yards, and this was actually quoted as the distance in one of the standard histories of the period.