Sedition in Wateringbury (1793)

Post date: Feb 14, 2017 7:50:37 PM

A case of rural sedition cited by Carl James Griffin in 'As Lated Tongues Bespoke': Popular Protest in South-East England, 1790-1840 at

http://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/files/34503575/DX223381.pdf

includes the case of John Hollis of Wateringbury, Kent, at the Kent Lent Assizes 1793, found guilty and imprisoned for three months for uttering seditious and treasonable expressions against the King and Government; see PRO Assi 94/1374.