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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