Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses / Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial

by 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton; J. B. Smith; Edward Stanley

Did you see any other troops come into the field?—I did.

What were they?—

Mr. Justice Holroyd: He says he saw what?—

Mr. Serjeant Blackburne: Other troops come into the field.

When was it that you saw them come into the field?—When the mob around the hustings were dispersing rapidly, and I think Mr. Hunt was taken off.

What were those troops that you saw come into the ground then?—First came in, on the left of Mr. Buxton’s row of houses, the Cheshire Yeomanry, who filed to the left.

Mr. Justice Holroyd: You mean to the left, looking from the house, then?—From the house.

Mr. Serjeant Blackburne: Where did the Cheshire Yeomanry take up their position when they came on the ground?—They took up their position in the rear of the hustings, rather in advance, I think, of some mounds of earth.

Do you know Windmill Street?—I know no street.

You don’t know its name?—I know no name.