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Freedom of the press - Great Britain

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    A letter from Candor , To the Public Advertiser.

    Candor | Date: 1764
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    A letter to the jurors of Great-Britain . Occasioned by an opinion of the court of King's Bench, read by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in the case of the King and Woodfall; and said to have been left by his Lordship with the Clerk of Parliament.

    Rous, George, 1744?-1802. | Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]
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    An essay on the liberty of the press chiefly as it respects personal slander

    Hayter, Thomas, 1702-1762. | Date: [1755]
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    Literary liberty considered; in a letter to Henry Sampson Woodfall

    | Date: [1774]
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    The trial of Daniel Isaac Eaton, before Lloyd Lord Kenyon, and a special jury, in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, London, July the tenth, 1793; for selling a supposed libel, A letter, addressed to the addressers. By Thomas Paine

    Daniel Isaac Eaton | Date: [1793]
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Related topics

Libel and slander - Great Britain
Trials (Seditious libel) - England - London
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1760-1789
Jury - Great Britain
Press law - Great Britain
Seditious libel - Great Britain

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