A collection of all three trials celebrating Hone's innocence and upholding freedom of the press.

Illustrated with over sixty woodcuts by Hone's frequent collaborator, George Cruikshank, this book reveals the writer's commitment to such issues as parliamentary reform, religious liberty, reform of asylums, and freedom of the press, while ...

Trial in the Court of King's Bench for publishing a parody entitled " The political litany".

Hone was tried for profane libel for publishing a political parody of the Anglican Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer. Hone readapted John Wilkes' eighteenth century manuscript.