John Harmer Eyewitness Account

• Place: Bury
• Role: Demonstrator
• Occupation: Weaver

Testifies to peacefulness of the meeting. Saw the Yeomanry cutting people at the hustings.

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John Hamer sworn: examined by Mr. Evans.

Q. You live at Bury?

A. Yes, Bury, Sir.

Q. What are you?

A. A weaver.

Q. Did you go to the meeting on the 16th. August, at Manchester?

A. Yes.

Q. Did you go with a party?

A. Sometimes I was with them, sometimes behind them, and sometimes before them, just as it happened.

Q. What part of the field were you in?

A. At the side going down Deansgate way, near the top of Deansgate.

Q. Was the meeting peaceable, or otherwise?

A. Very quiet.

Q. Did you see the Manchester cavalry come in?

A. Yes; they were as quiet as if they had been in a church till the Manchester Cavalry broke in on them.

Q. What did they do?

A. I did not see them till they came up to the, hustings; then they began a cutting?

Q. Did you see any stones thrown at them before they began cutting?

A. No, I did not; nor any thing, of the sort.

Q. Nor any resistance made to them?

A. Not in the least.

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