Edward Johnson Petitioner

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

Whilst expressing what he assumed the right of every English man was cut on head by Yeomanry, also received bruised and broken ribs.

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Petition of Edward Johnson of Manchester House of Commons, Votes and Proceedings, 15 May 1821

(No. 610)

A Petition of Edward Johnson of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,was presented, and read;setting forth, That the Petitioner, whilst exercising what he had always esteemed the undisputed right of every Englishman,the privilege of petitioning for a redress of grievance, was, while in the exercise of this right, at a Meeting held in Manchesteron the 16th of August on St. Peter’s Plain,violently assaulted by a band of armed Yeomanry Cavalry, who without any provocation, rode furiously amongst the people; the Petitioner was cut down to the ground by a sabre wound on the head, and was trampled under foot by the horses of the Yeomanry, who severely bruised the body and broke two of the ribs of the Petitioner; the Petitioner has never fully recovered his health and strength since that time; and praying, that the House will be pleased to cause such inquiry to be made into this wicked and brutal outrage as shall restore that confidence in the Laws which the commission of this not only unexpiated, but hitherto uninvestigated violence, has very much shaken in the mind of the Petitioner.

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