EditorialIn 1670 the Quaker and future founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn (d. 1718), was arrested on a charge of being part of an ‘unlawful and tumultuous’ assembly in London. Having been tried at the Old Bailey, Penn was initially acquitted by the jury,...
EditorialIn 1670 the Quaker and future founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn (d. 1718), was arrested on a charge of being part of an ‘unlawful and tumultuous’ assembly in London. Having been tried at the Old Bailey, Penn was initially acquitted by the jury,...
EditorialAndrew McKinlay, tried for administering unlawful oaths during the radical era, but found innocent, 1817. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.