Mary Ann Mckenna Petitioner

• Place: Manchester
• Role: Injured,Petitioner

Crowd peaceful, until cavalry rode amongst them and began cutting down petitioners, was trampled.

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Petition of Mary Ann McKenna House of Commons,Votes and Proceedings,15th May 1821.Transcribed by Mick McHugh

(No.621.)

A Petition of Mary Ann McKenna, of the town of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, was presented, and read; setting forth, That the Petitioner attended the Meeting held on St. Peter’s Plain,in Manchester,on the 16th of August 1819; arrived on the ground at the time when Mr. Hunt arrived in a carriage;the Meeting was quite peaceable; saw the Cavalry ride amongst the people, cutting at them indiscriminately; the Petitioner was knocked down by the Yeomanry,who trampld upon her with their horses;and such was the injury sustained by the Petitioner as to deprive her of the faculty of hearing and all power of speech, and for the space of six weeks that the Petitioner lay in the Hospital, her life was despaired of;the Petitionertherefore humbly prays, That the House would institute such inquiry as may bring to justice the abettors and perpetrators of so shocking an outrage.

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