"They were not a disorderly crowd?—No.
"Cross-examined by Mr Ellis:—
"You spoke of Sir Richard Mayne's proclamation as forbidding this meeting. Did you read it?—Yes.
"Does it forbid it?—The tenor of it seemed to me to be forbidding the assemblage, and I had not heard then, and have not heard now, that Sir Richard Mayne has any power to forbid my going into the Park; therefore I went.
"I think that the language of this proclamation is, that all well-disposed persons are requested to abstain. You do not call that forbidding?—When those police notices are put up I remember one place where I was requested to abstain from going to, some few years ago; and when I went there I found that the request to abstain was enforced in a precisely similar way, by striking the people with truncheons who went there. That was at Bonner's Fields.
"Were any persons struck with truncheons there?—Yes.
"Surely the police were armed with cutlasses?—I think I remember two being drawn as well; but I know some of them were struck with truncheons. I was struck with a truncheon myself, so that I am perfectly capable of remembering it.
"You were at Bonner's Fields?—I was.
"Mr Stuart Wortley.—Is there anything else that you wish to add?—Nothing.
"The witness withdrew."