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The Battle of the Press

by Theophila Carlile Campbell

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Appendix IV | List of Carlile’s Imprisonments

1817 (August 15th — December 20th)

Eighteen weeks for selling the Parodies (on the Book of Common Prayer). Compter.

1819 (November 16th)—1825 (November 18th).

Three years for selling the Age of Reason and Palmer’s Principles of Nature.

Three years more exacted for non-payment of fine of £1,500. Dorchester Gaol.

1831—1833.

Three years for an article in the Prompter at the time of the Agricultural Riots. Compter.

1834.

Four months for resisting Church Assessments.

Compter.

The actual time of imprisonment undergone was nine years, seven months, and one week.

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