Ebook The Three Trials of William Hone

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.