Peterloo Massacre 1819 (3 results)

Folding front. map of St. Peters Field, Manchester. Sympathetically bound in half tan calf, marbled boards, vellum-tipped corners, spine ruled in gilt & with black morocco label. v.g. Henry Hunt and others were tried in 1820 for causing a riot at the political meeting on 16th August 1819. Redford claimed that he had been assaulted and seriously wounded during the same riot. The defendants claimed that he was one of the rioters, and they had been engaged in suppressing a seditious conspiracy. The long trial describes the events of the day and a verdict was obtained for the defendants. On appeal a retrial was refused.

Disbound. 24pp. A satirical verse account of the (entirely peaceful) open-air radical meeting held in Newcastle on October 11th 1819, five days before the fateful events in Manchester. With contemporary ink identification of those involved. Anonymous in BL.

Disbound; first gathering loose, final leaf nearly detached. 24pp. Contemp. ink notes identifying those involved, with later ink biographical notes, 1p. ms. note signed 'JB' tipped in after p.8; portrait of Samuel Horsley loosely inserted, newspaper cutting about Thomas Jameson pasted to p.21. Signed Bob Fudge, and edited by the publisher John Marshall. The manuscript notes were clearly done by someone who was familiar with both the individuals discussed in the pamphlet and those involved in its production. They list the author as 'Mr Thomas Carr, attorney of Newcastle', with a later note adding 'who died 7 April 1843, aged 62 years'. All institutional records we have found list the author as anonymous or the pseudonymous Bob Fudge. A newspaper advertisement from October 9, 1819 is reprinted as a footnote on p.8, followed by a tipped in manuscript note which explains what happened to the newspaper following the inclusion of that ad, particularly that sales fell 75%. A satirical verse account of the (entirely peaceful) open-air radical meeting held in Newcastle on October 11th, 1819 after the Manchester massacre on the 16th of August. This protest was the largest of its kind to take place in the aftermath of Peterloo.