The trial of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart: at Leicester, on Thursday, March 23d, 1820, before Mr. Justice Best, and a special jury

by Francis Burdett

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London: William Hone, 1820. 45, 1 pages; disbound, mild handling wear and soil. Burdett had written a public letter to his constituents in 1819 censuring the government for leading a cavalry charge against thousands of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester. This record of his trial was published by the noted radical printer William Hone. Charged with seditious libel, Burdett was

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