A report of the proceedings, in the mock trial of an information, exhibited ex-officio by the King's Attorney General against William Tunbridge, for the publication of a book called "Palmer's Principles of Nature," as an alleged blasphemous libel upon the Christian religion and the Holy Scriptures of the Jews and Christians, before a packed jury and Lord Chief Justice Aboott, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Monday the 20th of January ... .
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London : R. Carlile, 1823.
Record id:
74350
Subject:
Carlile, Richard, -- 1790-1843.
Palmer, Elihu, -- 1764-1806. -- Principles of nature.
Society for the Suppression of Vice (London, England)
Trials (Blasphemy) -- Great Britain.
Blasphemy -- Great Britain.
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Title continues: Before a packed jury and Lord Chief Justice Abbott, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Monday the 20th of January, to which is added the whole of the suppressed part of the defendant's defense, and the proceedings in the court at Westminster on receiving its sentence, on Thursday the sixth of February, 1823.
Tunbridge was one of Richard Carlile's volunteer shopmen, brought to trial through efforts of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
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