BESSIE BUXTON ELI FEMALE_REFORMER_1 GEORGE GIRL_TRAVELLING_TO_PROTEST_1 GIRL_TRAVELLING_TO_PROTEST_2 GIRL_TRAVELLING_TO_PROTEST_3 HENRY_HUNT JEMIMA_BAMFORD JOSEPH_JOHNSON JOSHUA MAGISTRATE_BOLT MAGISTRATE_CLOWES MAGISTRATE_COL_FLETCHER MAGISTRATE_HULTON MAGISTRATE_NORRIS MAGISTRATE_REV_ETHELSTON MAGISTRATE_REV_GUTTERIDGE MAGISTRATE_REV_HAY MAGISTRATE_REV_MALLORY MAGISTRATE_REV_PERRYN MAGISTRATE_TATTON MAGISTRATE_WARMLEY MAN_PUSHING_CART MAN_TRAVELLING_TO_PROTEST_1 MAN_TRAVELLING_TO_PROTEST_2 MAN_TRAVELLING_TO_PROTEST_3 MAN_WITH_BLACK_HAT MAN_WITH_GREY_HAIR MARY MARY_FILDES MILL_OWNER MRS_JOHNSON NELLIE OVERSEER RICHARD_CARLILE ROBERT SAMUEL_BAMFORD SARAH SOLDIER SOLDIER_2 SUSANNAH_SAXTON THOMAS_WORRELL WOMAN_1_IN_CROWD WOMAN_IN_BROWN_SKIRT WOMAN_IN_GREEN_SKIRT WOMAN_IN_WHITE_MOB_CAP WOMAN_TRAVELLING_TO_PROTEST_1 WOMAN_TRAVELLING_TO_PROTEST_2 WOMAN_WEARING_SCARF WOMAN_WITH_BLACK_HAT YEOMAN_OFFICER YEOMAN_OFFICER_1 YEOMAN_OFFICER_2 YEOMAN_OFFICER_3 HENRY HUNT Understand this, I care not. I will not be paraded like some beast in a menagerie. MRS JOHNSON Can I not get thee a drink, Sam? SAMUEL BAMFORD Uh, no, thank you, my dear. SAMUEL BAMFORD Who is that? MRS JOHNSON It's Mr. Hunt. SAMUEL BAMFORD Oh, yeah. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye. JOSEPH JOHNSON Sam. JOSEPH JOHNSON Eh. May I ask what thee would like to speak to Mr. Hunt regarding? SAMUEL BAMFORD What I would like to speak to Mr. Hunt regarding, Joe, I would like to speak to Mr. Hunt regarding. JOSEPH JOHNSON Aye. Well, it would appear Mr. Hunt is otherwise occupied at present. SAMUEL BAMFORD Mm. Well, we all have matters that need attending to, Joe. SAMUEL BAMFORD I'm sure Mr. Hunt can spare a few moments to speak to a fellow reformer. HENRY HUNT Mr. Bamford. SAMUEL BAMFORD Mr. Hunt. HENRY HUNT What is it of such import that it cannot wait 'til Monday? SAMUEL BAMFORD How are you going on at our end o' t'country, sir? HENRY HUNT Sadly, I have been immured within these four walls this past week. HENRY HUNT Though I am grateful for the kind hospitality of these good people. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye, well, I'm glad to hear it. They are indeed good people. SAMUEL BAMFORD Now, speaking o' t'meeting a-Monday, we've been drilling lads in ranks... SAMUEL BAMFORD nigh on a month now, and we have a thousand men moving together as if it were a mere score, sir. HENRY HUNT Heartened to hear it, Mr. Bamford. I am told that we are to anticipate a mighty crowd. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye. Aye, we are that, sir. And we shall do thee proud. SAMUEL BAMFORD Now, we have been instilling into t'lads the principles of cleanliness, sobriety, order, SAMUEL BAMFORD and also, notion of peace, SAMUEL BAMFORD which I believe were your own personal addage to t'list, sir, and one which I respect greatly. SAMUEL BAMFORD Now, these ideas have been taken to heart by all t'lads SAMUEL BAMFORD and have been carried well throughout all t'ranks, sir. HENRY HUNT I look forward to seeing it with mine own eyes, Mr Bamford. HENRY HUNT I'm sure they'll do you proud. SAMUEL BAMFORD Now, on that subject, sir. SAMUEL BAMFORD would it not be prudent of us to have a small contingent of men. SAMUEL BAMFORD say, a score or two amongst a thousand. SAMUEL BAMFORD armed with cudgels. HENRY HUNT Mr. Johnson, will you show Mr. Bamford the door? SAMUEL BAMFORD just to protect- SAMUEL BAMFORD Mr. Hunt, I have come here to speak man-to-man about an important matter. HENRY HUNT Then let me speak to you man-to-man, Mr. Bamford. HENRY HUNT If any man is armed with so much as a stone on Monday, HENRY HUNT there will be no meeting at which I will speak. SAMUEL BAMFORD There are a large body of men signed up at Manchester. HENRY HUNT And women and children, and it is them that I seek to protect. SAMUEL BAMFORD I am speaking of t'Manchester and Salford Yeomanry, sir. SAMUEL BAMFORD A large body of men are signed up, and weapons have been widely distributed amongst them. HENRY HUNT And it is precisely for that reason that we must give them no provocation. SAMUEL BAMFORD But these are men who are not only politically adverse to our cause, sir, but also personally adverse to us. HENRY HUNT Mr. Bamford-- SAMUEL BAMFORD Are we to lead our young'uns, and our wives and our sweethearts into the mouth of such a threat, without means of defending them? HENRY HUNT Mr. Bamford. HENRY HUNT I understand your fears. HENRY HUNT but you have not been to a mass meeting as this promises to be. I have. HENRY HUNT I have spoken at meetings in London of over one hundred thousand people, HENRY HUNT and at those meetings, not one blade of grass, not a gust of wind, HENRY HUNT has been the recipient of a single act of violence. HENRY HUNT Had they been, the authorities would have taken it as permission HENRY HUNT to break up not only the meeting, but the entire movement. HENRY HUNT I will not have my reputation and name and the virtues which I espouse HENRY HUNT besmirched for the behaviour of a single group of men-- SAMUEL BAMFORD But this is Lancashire, sir, and authorities here have no regard for thy reputation or anybody else's. SAMUEL BAMFORD And meetings of this nature, hereabouts, invariably end in violence, sir. HENRY HUNT That is because they have not been addressed by me. SAMUEL BAMFORD Dost thy have children of thine own, sir? HENRY HUNT I do, sir. SAMUEL BAMFORD And would thee lead thy children into danger such as this? HENRY HUNT I would gladly lead my children by the hand, with a song in my heart, HENRY HUNT to any meeting chaired by Henry Hunt. SAMUEL BAMFORD Well... SAMUEL BAMFORD I am hardly satisfied by that. SAMUEL BAMFORD But as this is a committee decision not to bear arms, SAMUEL BAMFORD then I suppose I am duty-bound to carry it. SAMUEL BAMFORD But I shall pray to God that he might afford some protection to our vulnerable folk. SAMUEL BAMFORD I shall sithee a-Monday, sir, SAMUEL BAMFORD and let us hope it is a day we need not look back on with regret. HENRY HUNT Let us hope that, both. SAMUEL BAMFORD Aye. Good day. SAMUEL BAMFORD Joseph. SAMUEL BAMFORD Mrs. Johnson. JOSEPH JOHNSON I do apologize, Mr. Hunt. HENRY HUNT I want him watched from now until Monday. HENRY HUNT There will be no violence. JOSEPH JOHNSON I shall see to it. JOSEPH JOHNSON There is to be no weapons. Rest assured. HENRY HUNT Let us continue our supper. MRS JOHNSON Oh, it'll have gone cold, Mr. Hunt. HENRY HUNT It's no matter, Mrs. Johnson. HENRY HUNT Gentlemen, I hope you may permit me to dispense with the formalities. MAGISTRATE REV ETHELSTON We neither need nor desire introductions, Mr. Hunt. MAGISTRATE REV HAY Indeed not. HENRY HUNT Well then, let me ask plainly. HENRY HUNT Is there, as I've been led to believe that there is, a charge against my name? MAGISTRATE NORRIS I suggest you may be a victim of false information, Mr. Hunt. MAGISTRATE NORRIS There is presently no such a charge. HENRY HUNT There is no such a charge at present? MAGISTRATE NORRIS No, sir. MAGISTRATE REV HAY Would that there were, Mr. Hunt? HENRY HUNT Well, sir, should there be, let me avow HENRY HUNT that I would freely and without hesitation, offer myself up for arrest. HENRY HUNT I seek no subterfuge here in Manchester. HENRY HUNT Good evening, gentlemen. MAGISTRATE NORRIS You remain at liberty, Mr. Hunt. MAGISTRATE NORRIS but I might remind you that we retain the full and unwavering support of His Majesty's Government and military force. HENRY HUNT As I, sir, retain the support of the people. MAGISTRATE COL FLETCHER You, sir, are a blaggard! MAGISTRATE REV ETHELSTON Buffoon. MAGISTRATE COL FLETCHER He should be clapped in irons. MAGISTRATE NORRIS It takes but a matter of moments to inscribe a man's name on a warrant. MRS JOHNSON Good evening. RICHARD CARLILE Good evening, madam, uh, sir. RICHARD CARLILE I am seeking Mr. Henry Hunt. I was told he would be at this address at this hour. JOSEPH JOHNSON And you are? RICHARD CARLILE Uh, Richard Carlile of Sherwin's Political Register, London. JOSEPH JOHNSON Mr Carlile! Uh, Joseph Johnson of the Manchester Observer. RICHARD CARLILE Mr Johnson. JOSEPH JOHNSON JOSEPH JOHNSON Oh, do come in. RICHARD CARLILE Thank you. RICHARD CARLILE RICHARD CARLILE Ah, Henry! HENRY HUNT Richard. What do you here in Manchester? RICHARD CARLILE Uh, why, I'm-- I'm here to attend tomorrow's great assembly, naturally. HENRY HUNT But at whose invitation? RICHARD CARLILE Uh, why, that of Mr. Wroe and-- and-- and Mr. Knight of-- of the Manchester Observer. HENRY HUNT And why was I not informed of this? JOSEPH JOHNSON Well, I, um- JOSEPH JOHNSON RICHARD CARLILE I have prepared some words to address the multitude. HENRY HUNT Richard, I am afraid we have agreed that the number of speakers tomorrow will be kept to a minimum. RICHARD CARLILE Henry, I have brought with me 100 impressions of your exemplary Smithfield speech RICHARD CARLILE on civil and universal liberty, to distribute tomorrow. HENRY HUNT But this was from last month. I do not intend to repeat myself. RICHARD CARLILE Look, uh-- The people of these parts must know that reform is not merely a matter of achieving universal suffrage, RICHARD CARLILE but-- but a freedom from the tyranny of the Church and of the destruction of monarchy. HENRY HUNT Richard, in Manchester, universal suffrage is the sole message. That alone. HENRY HUNT I thank you for your pains. RICHARD CARLILE Uh-- Henry, what consideration have you given RICHARD CARLILE to the possibility of violence tomorrow? I fear it greatly. HENRY HUNT Richard. HENRY HUNT Firstly, you advise me how to speak. Now, you advise me how to behave. HENRY HUNT I feel your interventions are both excessive and unnecessary. RICHARD CARLILE Well, perhaps you will allow me to travel with you tomorrow? HENRY HUNT Mr. Johnson, might there be room in the barouche? JOSEPH JOHNSON Aye, I should think so, Mr. Hunt. HENRY HUNT Well then yes, you must. HENRY HUNT You'll be my guest. RICHARD CARLILE I thank you. RICHARD CARLILE Our chains are shaking, Henry. They will be broken. RICHARD CARLILE I will take my leave. Good evening. JOSEPH JOHNSON Good evening. MRS JOHNSON Good evening, sir. HENRY HUNT I must apologize for the continued interruptions, Mrs. Johnson. MRS JOHNSON Oh. HENRY HUNT I can assure you, come Tuesday, your lives will return to normalcy. MRS JOHNSON Mm. MRS JOHNSON Go home, Bessie. BESSIE Yes, Mrs. Johnson. BESSIE Good night, Mr. Johnson. MARY Y'a'right? NELLIE Aye. MARY The heat's knocked her out. NELLIE Ooh, it's too wam. MARY Aye. NELLIE I'll not sleep toneet. MARY It might cool down later on. NELLIE Aye. MARY 'Night. NELLIE ‘Night, love. MARY 'Night, Father. MARY Y'a'right for tomorrow? NELLIE Aye, I reckon so. MARY It'll be a good day, Mother. NELLIE Aye, it will. MARY 'Night. NELLIE 'Night, love. NELLIE You a'right? JOSHUA Aye. NELLIE Look at her. NELLIE Little angel. JOSHUA Mm. NELLIE I were just thinking. NELLIE in 1900, she'll be eighty-five. JOSHUA Will she? NELLIE Aye, of course she will. NELLIE She'll be a great-grandma. JOSHUA Wishing her life away. NELLIE Oh, I'm just saying. NELLIE I hope it's a better world for her. JOSHUA Summat'll get better. Some things'll never change. NELLIE They say there'll be a lot of folk there tomorrow, waving their flags, banging their drums. JOSHUA I hope so. JOSHUA JOSHUA Goodnight, Mother. NELLIE 'Night, Father. NELLIE MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD Right, we've got five lads in t'front row with t'laurels. JEMIMA BAMFORD Right, women in rows of five! MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum JEMIMA BAMFORD Come on, you girls! Rows of five. Sort yourselves out. SAMUEL BAMFORD Now then... JEMIMA BAMFORD Right. SAMUEL BAMFORD Who's got t'banner here? That's end. That's it, lads. SAMUEL BAMFORD You lads at t'end there. SAMUEL BAMFORD Hey, now. SAMUEL BAMFORD Keep in rank and file right, lads. SAMUEL BAMFORD ad libitum JEMIMA BAMFORD Mary. SAMUEL BAMFORD Right, let's have a look. WOMAN IN WHITE MOB CAP Oh, thank you. WOMAN IN WHITE MOB CAP ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD Now, then. SAMUEL BAMFORD The meeting we are going to today is t'biggest and most important meeting SAMUEL BAMFORD about parliamentary reform we've ever had. SAMUEL BAMFORD So, lads, stay in your ranks! SAMUEL BAMFORD The more calmness and sensibility we show now... SAMUEL BAMFORD the more we make liars of our enemies, who have represented us as a mob and a rabble this past few years, MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD and let's shame them with our good conduct. MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD Now, what we are going to town for today, we're not going to beg or plead, SAMUEL BAMFORD because what we want, it's not theirs to give! MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD It was given to us by God, on t'day of our birth, as honest Englishmen. WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 Aye! WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 Aye! WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD And with that in mind, no weapons must be allowed on the march, as agreed by t'committee. SAMUEL BAMFORD So come on, lads, drop the sticks, drop your clubs. WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD Drop your knives and your cudgels, there's no need for violence here. SAMUEL BAMFORD That's it, boys. SAMUEL BAMFORD Now then. SAMUEL BAMFORD First stop, will be Sam Ogden's taphouse in Harpurhey. MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD And then, on to Manchester. WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD and liberty! WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum SAMUEL BAMFORD Left foot forward, lads! SAMUEL BAMFORD Left! Left! Left! Left! THOMAS WORRELL Come on, get on with it. THOMAS WORRELL Get a move on. There's stones all over here, get 'em on the back of this cart, and quick! MAN PUSHING CART MILL OWNER Scum. MILL OWNER That's what they are. Scum. OVERSEER Aye, they are that, sir. MILL OWNER I put food on their table and this is how they repay me. OVERSEER They've got no right, sir. NELLIE Are we all ready? JOSHUA Aye, Nellie. ROBERT Oh, aye. NELLIE Reet, come on! MARY Aye. NELLIE Morning, Eli! ELI Morning, Nellie. MARY You looking forward to it? SARAH Yes. ROBERT All right? GEORGE Aye. JOSHUA Morning. WOMAN IN BROWN SKIRT ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum FEMALE REFORMER 1 ad libitum MARY FILDES Annual parliaments! SUSANNAH SAXTON No taxation without representation! MARY FILDES Vote by ballot! MARY FILDES No Corn Laws! WOMAN IN GREEN SKIRT Universal suffrage! WOMAN WEARING SCARF Get back to your husbands! WOMAN WITH BLACK HAT Shame! WOMAN WEARING SCARF Whores! Harlots! WOMAN WITH BLACK HAT Hussies! Go home to your babies! WOMAN WEARING SCARF It'll achieve nowt. WOMAN 1 IN CROWD Friends, unite and be free! MAGISTRATE WARMLEY ad libitum MAGISTRATE BOLT ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV MALLORY ad libitum MAGISTRATE COL FLETCHER ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV PERRYN ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV ETHELSTON Gentlemen, for king and country! MAGISTRATE REV MALLORY ad libitum MAGISTRATE CLOWES ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV PERRYN ad libitum MAGISTRATE WARMLEY ad libitum MAGISTRATE BOLT ad libitum YEOMAN OFFICER To king and country! MAN WITH GREY HAIR To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER 1 To king and country! MAN WITH BLACK HAT To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER And again! YEOMAN OFFICER 1 To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER 2 To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER 3 To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER And again! YEOMAN OFFICER 3 To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER 1 To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER 2 To king and country! YEOMAN OFFICER 1 ad libitum YEOMAN OFFICER 2 ad libitum ...give them a bit of justice! GIRL TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum GIRL TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum GIRL TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum NELLIE ad libitum SARAH ad libitum NELLIE ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum SOLDIER 2 ad libitum SOLDIER ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 3 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum MAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 2 ad libitum WOMAN TRAVELLING TO PROTEST 1 ad libitum BUXTON Norris, how do you do? BUXTON Look at them. MAGISTRATE NORRIS It is without precedent. MAGISTRATE NORRIS Is the room in readiness? BUXTON Aye, it is. MAGISTRATE NORRIS Very good. MAGISTRATE NORRIS I sent my man here earlier with some wine, is it? BUXTON Aye, sir, it's over there. MAGISTRATE NORRIS ad libitum BUXTON Could I have a word? MAGISTRATE NORRIS Of course, sir. MAGISTRATE NORRIS ad libitum BUXTON I don't know what's going on. MAGISTRATE NORRIS Well, at the moment, none of us do, sir. BUXTON ad libitum MAGISTRATE NORRIS ad libitum BUXTON ad libitum MAGISTRATE NORRIS ad libitum MAGISTRATE HULTON Mr Buxton, would you kindly remove that sheet? BUXTON Certainly, sir. MAGISTRATE NORRIS Gentlemen, should you need refreshment, we have some fine claret here, if you wish to avail yourselves. MAGISTRATE REV MALLORY ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV GUTTERIDGE ad libitum MAGISTRATE TATTON ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV HAY ad libitum MAGISTRATE CLOWES ad libitum BUXTON Gentlemen, I wish you well with your business today. MAGISTRATE REV MALLORY ad libitum MAGISTRATE CLOWES ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV GUTTERIDGE ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV HAY ad libitum MAGISTRATE TATTON ad libitum BUXTON If nature calls, there's a pot in t'corner. Good day, sir. MAGISTRATE REV MALLORY ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV HAY ad libitum MAGISTRATE TATTON ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV PERRYN ad libitum MAGISTRATE CLOWES ad libitum MAGISTRATE REV GUTTERIDGE Thank you, very much, sir.