Dennis Hickly Petitioner

• Place: Manchester
• Role: Injured,Spectator

The petitioner was violently attacked, cut and trampled. States Yeomanry was unprovoked.

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Petition of Dennis Hickly of Manchester House of Commons, Votes and Proceedings, 15 May 1821 Transcribed by Lauren Jaye Gradwell (No. 577)A Petition of Dennis Hickly, of Manchester,in the County of Lancaster,was presented, and read;setting forth, That the Petitioner, while attending the Meeting held at Manchester on the 16th of August, 1819, in St. Peter’s Field,was violently attacked by the Yeomanry Cavalry, one of whom cut the Petitioner to the ground with a sabre and rode over his body; the Petitioner was so severely bruised by being trampled upon, that he was disabled for near a month: the Petitioner stood near to the hustings, and had a complete view of what passed at the Meeting; he never saw the least disposition to tumult on the part of the people; and he conceives that the attack made upon the Meeting by the Yeomanry Cavalry was unprovoked, and that it was a wanton and cruel outrage; and prays, that the House will be pleased to cause inquiry to be made into the proceedings which took place on the afore-mentioned occasion

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