Margaret Booth Petitioner

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

Injured by Calvary charge and lost an eye as a result.

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Petition of Margaret Booth, Manchester.

House of Commons, Votes and Proceedings, 15^th May 1821.

 

A petition of Margaret Booth, of Manchester, Lancashire, was presented, and read; setting forth, that the petitioner, while attending a peaceful meeting which was held at Manchester on the 16^th of August, 1819, the petitioner was rode down by the Yeomanry Cavalry, in consequence of which she was so severely crushed and bruised that she was taken off the ground for dead, and carried to the infirmary; the petitioner lost an eye in the consequence of the injury she received, and has been in a very weakly state ever since; the petitioner humbly prays, that the House will be pleased to cause an inquiry to be made into the transactions which took place at the time and place above stated.

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