Peter McQuaide Petitioner

• Place: Manchester
• Role: Injured,Petitioner

Crowd peaceful until cavalry attacked, petitioner was slashed on shoulder

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Petition of Peter McQuaide House of Commons,Votes and Proceedings,15th May 1821.

(No.621.)

A Petition of Peter McQuaide, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, was presented, and read; setting forth, That the Petitioner was present at the Meeting held in Manchester on the 16th of August 1819; was quite peaceable and well disposed; the Petitioner was, without any provocation on his part, or on that of any of the people assembled, furiously assailed by the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry,who rode over the Petitioner; while on the ground the Petitioner received a deep wound on his right shoulder from one of the Yeomanry, who cut him with a sabre;from the bruises received on the various parts of his body, the Petitioner with difficulty escaped the fury of the Yeomanry, and is yet in a weakly state from the injuries received on that fatal day; the Petitioner humbly prays, That the House will be pleased to cause such inquiry to be made into the transactions which took place as before stated as may bring the guilty authors and perpetrators of them to justice.

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