Size of Crowd at Peterloo
Author | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Tatton | Magistrate, testimony at Hunt's trial, March, 1820 | 30,000 |
| William Hulton | Magistrate, testimony at Hunt's trial, March, 1820 | 50,000 |
| Lord Castlereagh | speech in Parliament | 70,000 |
| Samuel Bamford | Passages in the Life of a Radical | 80,000 |
| John Tyas | The Times | 80,000 |
| George Swift | letter to brother, August, 1819 | 130,000 |
| Henry Hunt | speech on 18th, September, 1819 | 150,000 |
| Richard Carlile | The Republican | 150,000 |
| James Wroe | Manchester Observer | 153,000 |