PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
HISTORICAL SERIES
No. XXXIX.
THREE ACCOUNTS OF
PETERLOO.
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From a Print lent by Lord Sheffield Photo by R. H. Fletcher
Bishop Stanley
1779-1849
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
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1921
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