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

    By Edward Stanley, William Jolliffe, John Benjamin Smith and F. A. Bruton

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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

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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 - Edward Stanley

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      Title: Three Accounts of Peterloo

      By Eyewitnesses Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin

      Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial

      Author: Edward Stanley

      William Jolliffe

      John Benjamin Smith

      Editor: F. A. Bruton

      Release Date: August 7, 2011 [EBook #37004]

      Language: English

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      PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

      HISTORICAL SERIES

      No. XXXIX.

      THREE ACCOUNTS OF

      PETERLOO.

      Published by the University of Manchester at

      THE UNIVERSITY PRESS (H. M. McKechnie, M.A., Secretary)

      12 Lime Grove, Oxford Road, MANCHESTER

      LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.

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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

      MANCHESTER:

      AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

      LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.

      LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, etc.

      1921

      PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

      No. CXL.

      Contents.

      Illustrations.

      Introduction.

      Of the three accounts of the Tragedy of Peterloo given here, two (the first and third) have never been published before. The second appeared in the Life of Lord Sidmouth in 1847. All three, written with care and judgment, by men who afterwards rose to eminence, form a valuable contribution to the understanding of an event, the accounts of which have been for the most part distorted and misleading. Moreover, as each of the three writers deals with a different phase of the day’s happenings, the accounts complement one another.

      The Editor had already arranged for the publication of the first, when he received the following letter from Lord Sheffield, dated Penrhos, Holyhead, August 21st, 1919:—

      "It is many years since I had the copy of the Rev. E. Stanley’s report, and no doubt it was one of the lithographed copies you mention.

      I think it would be well if it were published, along with the evidence to which you refer. I also think the Plan, of which you speak, should be added, and the reports of Jolliffe and J. B. Smith."

      Lord Sheffield supported his suggestion by enclosing a cheque towards the cost of printing, and this made easy the publication of the whole. Lord Sheffield also kindly lent the portrait of Bishop Stanley, which appears as the Frontispiece.

      Acknowledgments are due, besides: (1) to Mr. Henry Guppy, M.A., for permission to use the blocks of Wroe’s picture of Peterloo, and the Plan from the Story of Peterloo in the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library for October, 1919; and to copy a page of the Account-book of the Relief Committee; (2) to Lady Durning Lawrence, who (with the late Mr. C. W. Sutton, M.A.) gave permission to print the Extract from the Reminiscences of Mr. J. B. Smith, and to reproduce his portrait; (3) to Mr. W. Marcroft of Southport; and Messrs. Hirst & Rennie of Oldham, for the loan of the blocks of Orator Hunt, the Hunt Memorial, and the Peterloo Medal; (4) to Mr. John Murray for leave to reprint Lieutenant Jolliffe’s letter; (5) to Mr. W. W. Manfield, for the loan of the three Relics of Peterloo; and (6) to Mr. R. H. Fletcher, amateur photographer, of Eccles, for photographing the relics, etc.

      F. A. B.

      Three Accounts of Peterloo

      BISHOP STANLEY

      The Rev. Edward Stanley (1779-1849) was the second son of Sir J. T. Stanley, the Sixth Baronet, and Margaret Owen, of Penrhos, Anglesey. His elder brother was the first Baron Stanley of Alderley. As a boy, he had a natural inclination for the sea, but this was not encouraged. For thirty-two years he was Rector of Alderley, in Cheshire. While making himself beloved as a Parish Priest, he found time for many scientific and other interests. His Familiar History of Birds is a standard work; he advocated, and assisted in, the teaching of Science and Temperance at Alderley; and he became one of the first Presidents of the Manchester Statistical Society. Though he declined the See of Manchester, when it was offered him, he accepted from Lord Melbourne, in 1837, the Bishopric of Norwich, and introduced a number of reforms into that diocese. A short memoir of him was written by his son, the famous Dean of Westminster.

      At the date of Peterloo, a number of clergymen sat on the Bench of Magistrates for Lancashire and Cheshire, but Stanley stated clearly at the Trial that he was not a Magistrate. He was then forty years of age, and Rector of Alderley, and in his evidence he was careful to

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