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Samuel Kaye Eyewitness Account
- Place: Bury
- Role: Spectator
- Occupation: Cotton Weaver
Testifies to seeing Yeomanry waving arms back and forth near the hustings. He was standing near the Quaker’s meeting house and was cut there by men in soldier’s uniform.
Account
Download accountSamuel Kaye sworn: examined by Mr. Evans.
Q. You are; a weaver at Tottington near Bury?
A. Yes.
Q. Were you at the meeting at Manchester on the 16th. August?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What part of the field were you in; what distance were you from the hustings?
A. Might be forty or fifty yards; I cannot say justly.
Q. Did you see the Manchester Yeomanry come on?
A. I never saw them till they came on me.
Q. What did you see them do?
A. I saw them do nothing but waver in this fashion like. (Throwing his arm backwards and forwards.)
Q. Were you about the hustings; in what place?
A. The meeting-house, the Quakers' meeting-house.
Q. What took place afterwards?
A. I made the best of my escape off.
Q. Off where?
A. From the place where we were at.
Q. Where did you go to?
A. I was driven up to the wall, among some wood. ,
Q. What took place there?
A. I got cut there.
Q. By whom were you wounded?
A. I cannot say who.
Q. Was it one of the Yeomanry?
A. They were in the form of soldiers. I cannot say who they were.
Q. How were they dressed?
A. They were dressed in the form of soldiers.
Q. They were dressed in a soldier's dress. Was the meeting peaceable, or otherwise?
A. Yes.
Q Did you see any stones thrown at the Yeomanry, or any resistance made to them?
A. No, sir.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Cross.
Q. Did you march with the main body from Bury that morning?
A. No.
Q. You came by yourself?
A. There were two old men and me went together.
Q. You did not go with this body of people?
A. Sometimes I was before them, sometimes behind them.
Q. You had them in sight?
A. Yes.
Q. You walked alongside, sometimes among them; did you set out with them from Bury?
A. No, sir.
Q. Did you muster with them in the square?
A. No; I never was in the square that morning.
Q. Did you ever take an evening's walk with the man who has just gone?
A. No.
Q. You live near Cockey Moor?
A. I live within two miles.
Q. Did you take your walks there perhaps?
A. Never in my life. I took no walk on any particular errand.