David Ellis Petitioner

• Place: Manchester
• Role: Demonstrator,Injured,Petitioner

David Ellis described the Yeomanry Cavalry riding through and cutting and trampling the crowd. He received a sabre cut to the head and hand which left him disabled for a month.

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Petition of David Ellis of Manchester

House of Commons, Votes and Proceedings, 15 May 1821

 

A Petition of David Ellis, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, was presented and read; setting forth, That the Petitioner, while in the exercise of the right of Petition, at a Meeting held on St. Peter’s Field, in Manchester, on the 16^th of August 1819, was violently assaulted by the Yeomanry Cavalry, who without provocation rode furiously amongst the people, cutting down and trampling upon all within their reach; the Petitioner received a sabre wound upon the head, and another on his hand, and it was with great difficulty that the Petitioner effected his escape; the Petitioner was completely disabled by his wounds for upwards of a month; the Petitioner humbly prays, That the House would be pleased to institute such inquiry into the bloody transaction as shall prove to the wicked perpetrators of it that an Englishman, in the legal and peaceable exercise of his rights, cannot be savagely maimed with impunity.

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