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
On the shaded space are marked: "Hustings;" "Carriage" (_i.e._, Mr. Hunt's
carriage, marked also on Stanley's Plan); the double line of "Constables;"
and the "Manchester Yeomanry," drawn up in front of the row of houses in
Mount Street, labelled: "Magistrates assembled here." The Friends' Meeting
House is marked "Quaker's Meeting House," and the enclosing wall is stated
to measure in height "3 ft. 7 in. on the inside" and "10 ft. 3 in. on the
outside." These measurements would be inserted, probably, in connection
with the statement that one of the Cavalry jumped his horse over this
wall. Apparently a gate and posts cross Mount Street in front of the
Meeting House, and lead into "St. Peter's Field," across which two dotted
lines indicate the _projected_ line of Peter Street.
[Illustration: Plan of Peterloo. From Farquharson's Report of the Trial,
1822. (See page 88.)
_Photo by R. H. Fletcher._]
The position of the Troops and the line of their approach to the Field are
shown as follows: The "31st Infantry" are drawn up in Brazennose Street,
the upper end of which is also blocked with a gate and posts; the "88th
Infantry" are lined up in Dickinson Street; in Portland Street are the
"Manchester Yeomanry," and their course is shown by a dotted line up
Portland Street, along Nicholas Street, down Cooper Street, and then round
the corner of Cooper's garden wall (now the site of the north-western
corner of the Midland Hotel) into Mount Street; the Plan stating that "The
Manchester Yeomanry came this way to the ground;" another troop of the
"Manchester Yeomanry" is drawn up in front of St. John's Church, in Byrom
Street; facing them, in the same street, are shown the "15th Hussars" in
two sections, presumably representing the "two squadrons" mentioned by
Lieutenant Jolliffe in his letter; lastly, the "Cheshire Yeomanry" are
drawn up in St. John's Street, off Deansgate, and the line of approach of
all these mounted troops is shown by a dotted line passing along Byrom
Street, St. John's Street, southward down Deansgate, then along Fleet
Street, up Lower Mosley Street, and along the "raised ground" already
mentioned to St. Peter's Field, the inscription on the Plan reading: "The
15th Hussars, one troop of the Manchester and Cheshire Yeomanry came this
way to the ground." The artillery are not shewn.
The scale of yards given on the Plan shows that Stanley's estimate of a
hundred yards as the distance from Mr. Buxton's house to the Hustings was
exactly correct.
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