Three Trials of William Hone

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Mr. Shepherd (son to the attorney-general) stated, that this was an information filed by his Majesty's attorney-general against the defendant, for printing and publishing a certain impious, profane, and scandalous libel on that part of our church service called the Catechism, with intent to excite impiety and irreligion in the minds of his Majesty's liege subjects, to ridicule and scandalise the Christian religion, and to bring into contempt the Catechism.