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Cursory Strictures on the Charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre to the Grand Jury, October 2, 1794: first published in the Morning Chronicle, October 21

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1794

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Godwin, William Cursory Strictures on the Charge delivered by Lord Chief Justice Eyre to the Grand Jury, October 2, 1794: first published in the Morning Chronicle, October 21 (21 October 1794) Morning Chronicle

Written and published following the arrest of radicals including Thomas Holcroft, Thomas Hardy, John Thelwall and John Horne Tooke, who were then charged with high treason. Godwin's intervention argues against the broad definition of treason outlined by Lord Chief Justice Eyre and had a significant impact on the trial. No convictions were secured and all those arrested were released. Cursory Strictures was first published anonymously in the Morning Chronicle of 21 October 1794, reprinted by several newspapers and issued as a pamphlet by Kearsley. Kearsley discontinued it after a warning from the ministry and Daniel Issac Eaton then republished it in an extended form.