Elizabeth Cade Petitioner

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

Petitioner was trampled by a yeomanry horse and then hit by a Special Constable’s truncheon. Carried unconscious from the field.

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Petition of Elizabeth Cade of Manchester

House of Commons, Votes and Proceedings, 15 May 1821

 

A Petition of Elizabeth Cade, of Manchester, was presented, and read; setting forth, That the Petitioner was at the Meeting held in Manchester on the 16^th of August, 1819; the Petitioner saw no disposition to tumult on the part of the people; the Petitioner is humbly of opinion, that no provocation whatever was given, when the Yeomanry Cavalry made a furious charge upon the Meeting; who cut at, and rode over all they came at; the Petitioner was rode down by Major Birley, of the Manchester Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, and trampled on by his horse; while on the ground, the Petitioner received a violent blow on the head from one of the Special Constables, who struck her with a truncheon; the Petitioner was carried out of the crowd in a state of insensibility; and was so severely crushed and bruised, that she was obliged to seek an asylum in the parish workhouse of Rochdale, in the County of Lancaster (the Petitioner being a widow with two small children), where she lay for four months; the Petitioner humbly prays, That the House will institute an inquiry into the transactions which took place relative to the above Meeting.

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