Penalites Upon Opinion: Blasphemy
(Blasphemy is not a focus of my study but bears some tenuous affinity with heresy as as a crime of religion.) Penalties Upon Opinion: Or, Some Records of the Laws of Heresy and Blasphemy (1689-1912) Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, London, Watts & Co, 1912, Published for the Rationalist Press Association. The author’s conclusion is cautious, and makes no claim to be exhaustive - nonetheless I have not found any list more comprehensive. Notwithstanding the title, the cases she records are exclusively those of blasphemy. 1728 Thomas Wooston Six Discourses on the Miracles (1726) Argued for allegorical reading of miracles Imprisoned till d. 1733 1756 Jacob Ilive Some Modest Remarks on the late Bishop Sherlock’s Sermons. Pilloried in three places around London, then imprisoned with hard labour for 3 years 1766 Peter Annet Articles in The Free Inquirer 1797 Williams (a bookseller) for selling Paine’s Age of Reason (Part 2) Prosecuted by the “The