Size of Crowd at Peterloo

Author

Source

Size

Thomas TattonMagistrate, testimony at Hunt's trial, March, 1820

30,000

William HultonMagistrate, testimony at Hunt's trial, March, 1820

50,000

Lord Castlereaghspeech in Parliament

70,000

Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a Radical

80,000

John TyasThe Times

80,000

George Swiftletter to brother, August, 1819

130,000

Henry Huntspeech on 18th, September, 1819

150,000

Richard CarlileThe Republican

150,000

James WroeManchester Observer

153,000